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The Mystic Test Book of 
**The Hindu Occult Chambers" 

THE 

Magic and Occultism of India 

Hindu and Egyptian 
Crystal Gazing 

The Hindu Magic Mirror 

By DR. L. W. de LAURENCE 




Astral and Spirit Sight. The Wonders of 
the Magic Mirror. Clairvoyance. Inner 
Sight. Interior Focalization of the Mind. 
State of Introspection. Interior Concentra- 
tion. Astral Auras. Reading in the Astral 
Light. Telepathy. 

SPECIAL FEATURE 

Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing 



de LAURENCE, SCOTT & COMPANY 
MASONIC TEMPLE, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Copyright, 1909, by 
DR. L. W. de LAURENCE. 

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March, 1909. 
Published April, 1909. 



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The Mystic Test Book of 
**TheHindu Occult Chambers' 




The 

Magic and Occultism 

of 

India 



The Mystic Test Book of 

"The Hindu Occult Chambers'' 

Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing 

Together With The 

Wonders of the Magic Mirror 

This work teaches the original and true science 
of Hindu Seership and 

"Spirit-and-Astral-Sight-At-Will." 

The Hindu can, by the use of the Crystal or the 
aid of the Magic Mirror, tell one's life from the 
cradle to the grave; he can, and does, by the use 
and aid of these mediums indicate medicine for 
disease, and perform many marvelous and myste- 
rious things; the very same being both good and evil. 

Many there are who have personally tested the 
Hindu and found that he possesses wonderfiil Astral 
and Esoteric Powers, gained only by the constant 
use of his Crystal and the aid of his Magic Mirror, 
which is his constant companion and helpmate. 




The author, in writing this treatise, has used some extracts 
and passages contained in his work "The Great Book of 
Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism" as, 
of course, he had a perfect right to do, although this refers 
only to a very few pages in the fore part of this book. 

(.The Publisher's Note. ) 




THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK OF "THE HINDU 
OCCULT CHAMBERS'' 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 



PART ONE. 



CHAPTER L 

Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing, Together 

With the Wondees of the Hindu Magic 

Mirror. — Clairvoyant Vision. — Spirit 

and Astral Sight. 

The most pitiful and yet the most grotesque 
sight that meets the eye of today is the presump- 
tuous fool, who does not stop to think that by his 
own actions, conduct, and very maimer of living 



2 MYSTIC TEST BOOS, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

and believing he is persistently closing his inner 
or spiritual sight to the real possibilities of Life. 

These are concealed from him, because he has 
never developed his Inner or Soul Sight sufficient 
to realize or know that the most valuable asset in 
life is to ^^Knoiv Thyself" and to see with the 
Inner or Spiritual Sight. 

This book gives real instruction and Indian 
teachings, as they are known in South India. He 
who really and truly desires knowledge, and is 
sincere, faithful and steadfast in his efforts to 
obtain it, will learn a great deal from this work. 

The half -brained, lazy, complaining fool, who is 
always suspicious of others robbing him, will 
learn nothing here nor from no other book. He 
who is eternally crying and complaining, is he who 
disbelieves; and he who disbelieves, that is, has 
no belief or confidence in himself to learn some- 
thing from a book, is like the fool who complained 
because he could not see, while at the same time 
he was standing in his own light. 

So be careful that you are not guilty of stand- 
ing in your own light. 



As you delve into Hindu, Egyptian ancient 
mysteries the Spirit world will open before you. 
The more you begin to understand the language 



a?HE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 3 

of the Adepts the more grows your conception 
of that life and world called Spirit, not seen by 
the outward sight. 

The Occultism, anatomy, physiology, and psy- 
chology which they teach make of man something 
immeasurably greater than the puny and impo- 
tent being known to modern science as a com- 
pound of bones, muscles, and nerves. Modern 
science (materialism) attempts to prove that man 
is an animal; the teachings of the Adepts show 
that he may be a God. Modern science invests 
him with the power to lift his own weight ; ancient 
science (Occult Philosophy) invests him with the 
power to control the destiny of the world. Mod- 
ern science allows him to live for a very limited 
number of years; ancient science teaches that he 
always existed, and will never cease to exist if he 
desires to live. Modern science deals with the 
instrument that the real man uses as long and as 
often as he comes into relationship with the world 
of phenomena, and she mistakes that instrument 
for the man ; the Adepts show you the true nature 
of the essential man, to whom one earthly exist- 
ence is nothing more than one of the many inci- 
dents of his eternal Spiritual career. 

This power of spiritual perception, potentially 
contained in every man, but developed in few, is 
almost unknown to the guardians of science in 



4: MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

our Western countries of modern civilization, 
because learning is often separated from wisdom 
and the inner or Spirit Sight, and the calculating 
intellect seeking for worms in the dark caverns 
of the earth cannot see the genius that floats 
toward the light and it cannot realize his exist- 
ence. And yet this ancient science (Occultism), 
which the modern ignore, is as old as the world. 
It was known to the ancient prophets, to the 
Arhats and Rishis of the East ; to initiated Brah- 
mins, Egyptians, and Greeks, and the Hindu 
Sages. Its fundamental doctrines are found in 
the Hindu Vedas and the Sacred Books of the 
East. Upon these secret doctrines rest the fun- 
daments of the religions and secret orders of the 
world. They formed the essence of the secrets 
that were revealed only to the initiated in the 
inner temple, where the ancient mysteries were 
taught, and whose disclosure to the vulgar was 
forbidden under the penalty of torture and death. 
They were secrets known to the ancient sages and 
to the Hindu Adepts and Rosicrucians of the 
Middle Ages, and upon a partial understanding 
of their truths rests the system of modern 
Freemasonry. 

They are not to be confounded with speculative 
philosophy, that reasons from the known to that 
which it cannot know, trying by the flickering light 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 5 

of logic and orthodoxy to grope its way into the 
darkness, and to feel the objects which it cannot 
see. These doctrines were taught by the seers of 
old who possessed spiritual power and the inner 
sight to see. Such men were the great religious 
reformers of all ages, from Confucius and Zoroas- 
ter down to Jacob Boehme and Eckartshausen, 
and their teachings have been verified by every 
one whose purity of mind and whose power of 
intellect have enabled him to see and to under- 
stand the things of the spirit (God). 

Some of their doctrines refer to morals and 
ethics, others are of a purely scientific character ; 
but both aspects of their teachings are intimately 
connected together, because beauty cannot be 
separated from truth. They both form the two 
pages of a leaf in the book of universal Nature, 
whose understanding confers upon the reader not 
merely opinions, but knowledge, and renders him 
not only learned, but illuminated with wisdom 
and Spirit-Sight- At-Will. 

Among those who have taught the moral aspect 
of the secret doctrine there are none greater than 
Buddha, Plato, and Jesus of Nazareth; of those 
who have taught its scientific aspect there have 
been none more profound than Hermes, Trisme- 
gistus, Pythagoras, and Paracelsus. They ob* 
tained their knowledge not merely from following 



6 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

the prescribed methods of learning, or by accept- 
ing the opinions of the "recognized authorities" 
of ''their times," bnt they studied nature by her 
own light, and learned the lesson ''I^ow Thy- 
self," and they became lights themselves, whose 
rays illuminate the world of mind. What they 
taught has been to a certain extent verified and 
amplified by the teachings of Eastern Adepts 
(Yoghis), and Hierophants of the Orient. 

The Light of Wisdom. 

There is an art, known only to a few, by which 
the purified and faithful soul of man may be 
instructed and illuminated so as to be raised at 
once from the darkness of ignorance (material- 
ism) to the light of wisdom and knowledge. 

If the soul is perfectly purified and sanctified it 
becomes free in its movements, it sees and recog- 
nizes the Divine light, and instructs itself, while it 
seems to be instructed by another. In this state 
the soul requires no other admonition except its 
own realization, which is the head and guide of 
the soul. 

It is then no more subject to terrestrial condi- 
tions of time, but lives in the eternal ; and for the 
human soul to desire a thing is to possess it 
already. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. % 

Man's power to realize increases in proportion 
as this ethereal and celestial power of light pene- 
trates his mind, and, developing his inner sight 
or Spirit sight, it may enable him to see and per- 
ceive that which he interiorly thinks, just as if it 
were objective and external. Spirit being unity 
and independent of our ideas of space, and all men 
having therefore essentially the same spirit, the 
soul of men existing at places widely distant from 
each other may thus enter into communication 
(telepathy), and converse with each other exactly 
in the same manner as if they had met in their 
physical bodies. 

In this state man may perform a great many 
things in an exceedingly short period of time, so 
that it may seem to us as if he had required no 
time at all to perform it. Such a man is able to 
comprehend and understand everything by the 
light of the universal power (spirit) or guiding 
intelligence with which he is spontaneously united. 

Again, that there is a certain kind of spiritual 
force, occult influence or energy, based on the 
existence of the spiritual and Astral world, placed 
without, not within, the body, and into communica- 
tion with which the human soul of man can enter 
by and through the law and principal of realiza- 
tion, has long been demonstrated as a fact. That 
these invisible forces (evil spirits who are earth- 



8 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, ffiNDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

bound and exist in the Astral body) can control 
a man and break him down as easily as the fearful 
hurricane sweeps all before it, striking him in a 
thousand places at the same time, without his 
being able to perceive the invisible foe or being 
able to protect himself, is also proven. 

But that these forces may be dominated and 
invoked, so that they will obey the thoughts, 
answer to the voice and understand the meaning of 
traced signs, is what many cannot realize and 
what their reason rejects ; yet this also is capable 
of being demonstrated and proven. The reader 
and student should always bear in mind that in 
trying to demonstrate these things for himself he 
is working with unseen and powerful agents, 
which, if he is not equally powerful, pure and high- 
minded, loving his fellow-men, and seeking to 
benefit mankind, rather than seeking or desiring 
Occult powers to further his own selfish interests, 
he had much better be dead than to try any of 
these things for the gratification of his personal 
nature; for in seeking to harm another, curses, 
like chickens, return home to roost, with a much 
greater force than the original impulse. 

Thus, again, we should look within rather than 
without, as the exercise of True Magic does not 
require any ceremonies or conjurations, or the 
making of circles and signs; it only requires a 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 9 

strong faith, gained through a knowledge of na- 
ture's laws, ivhich can accomplish anything, if it 
acts through a human mind which is in harmony 
with these laws, without which nothing useful can 
he done. True Magic also consists in true faith; 
but true faith rests in spiritual knowledge, and 
without that kind of knowledge there can be no 
faith; this is only obtained by developing one's 
oivn inner and most lofty nature. The conjura- 
tion of the evil spirits of the Astral plane (sorcery, 
black magic and witchcraft) means practically a 
full realization of ''Faust and the Demon." 
There are many strange things set forth in the 
following pages, almost too strange to believe, yet 
because one is ignorant of their existence it does 
not follow that they are not real, as the sad rec- 
ords of Sorcery and Witchcraft, of Voodooism 
and The Black Art abundantly testify. 

Man does not know himself, therefore he does 
not understand the things of the invisible world. 
Each man has the essence of the Divine (spiritual) 
within himself; he possesses one kind of knowl- 
edge as much as another, and he who does not 
find that which is in him he cannot truly say he 
does not possess it, only he is not as yet capable 
of successfully seeking it. 

Therefore, in seeking, always bear in mind — 
true growth rests in the capacity of the human 



10 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

soul and the human will to comprehend spiritual 
truths, and not hy basing its conclusions upon 
external appearances caused by the illusion of the 
senses or of selfish purposes. 

The writer's teachings are, that our soul is the 
vehicle of celestial attraction, transferring celes- 
tial and spiritual virtue into Seals, Images, Amu- 
lets, Rings, Papers, Glasses, etc. Also, he has 
endeavored to give the most clear and rational 
illustration of the wonderful Occult sympathy and 
antipathy, attraction and repulsion between all 
things in the universe. 

He has likewise proved how cures are performed 
by virtue of sympathetic powers and medicines, 
by seals, rings, and amulets, even at unlimited 
distances, which he has been a witness of, and are 
daily confirmed in the true and certain belief 
of. This same being taught in '"The Great 
Book of Magical, Hindu Magic and East Indian 
Occultism. ' ' 

The writer knows how to communicate with 
any person, and to give him intimation of pur- 
pose, at a hundred or a thousand miles distance ; 
but then a preparation is necessary, and the par- 
ties should have their appointed seasons and 
hours for that purpose; likewise, both should be 
of the same firm constancy of mind, and a disciple 
or brother in OCCULTISM or ADEPTSHIP. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. H 

There is also given methods whereby a man may 
receive true and certain intimation of future 
things (by dreams) of whatsoever his mind has 
before meditated upon, himself being properly 
disposed. 

Likewise, there is recited the various methods 
used by the ancients for the invocation of spirits 
from the ASTRAL PLANE ; different forms of 
MAGICAL EXORCISM, incantations, orations, 
binding of spirits, conjurations; all of which is 
the knowledge taught by the Eastern ADEPTS 
and the most famous MAGICIANS, such as 
Zoroaster, Hermes, Apollonius, Simon of the 
Temple, Trithemius, Agrippa, Porta (the Neapol- 
itan), Dr. Dee, Paracelsus, Roger Bacon, and a 
great many others ; to which the author has sub- 
joined notes, endeavoring to point out the differ- 
ence of the arts, so as to free the name of Magic 
from any scandalous imputation, seeing it is a 
word originally significative not of any evil, but 
of every good and laudable science, such as a man 
might profit by, and become both WISE and 
happy; and the knowledge of OCCULTISM is so 
far from being offensive to science or man that 
the very root or ground of all Magic takes its rise 
from the Orient and British West Indies. 

The Hindus were the first Magicians, for by 
their high and excellent knowledge they knew that 



13 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

the Occult power which was promised was born 
in all men. Therefore, let no one be offended at 
the venerable and sacred title of Magician or 
Adept — a title which every WISE man merits 
while he pursues that path which "Jesus the 
Master" himself trod, viz., humility, charity, 
mercy, fasting, etc.; and, again, men should "Be 
wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Such 
instructions as these are frequently named and 
given in many places of the ancient Mysteries. 

* ' The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic 
and East Indian Occultism, ' * referred to elsewhere 
in this work, also forms a complete treatise on the 
mysteries of OCCULTISM and CEREMONIAL 
MAGIC, by the study of which a man (who can 
separate himself from material objects, by the 
modification of the sensual appetite — abstinence 
from drunkenness, gluttony, and other bestial pas- 
sions, and who lives pure and temperate, free 
from actions which degenerate a man to a brute) 
may become a recipient of Divine Light and knowl- 
edge; by which he may foresee things to come, 
whether to private families or kingdoms, or states, 
empires, battles, victories, etc.; and likewise be 
capable of doing much good to his fellow-crea 
tures, such as the healing of all disorders, mental 
and physical, and assisting with the comforts of 
life the unfortunate and distressed. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 13 

Further, the writer has spoken in that famous 
work, largely of prophetic dreams and visions 
throughout the different chapters, and has given 
valuable knowledge, fully set down for the infor- 
mation of the WISE, some few most secret things 
being reserved by the author for his pupils only, 
not to be taught by publication. 

If in these writings the Author seems oracular 
and dogmatic, it is because he writes from the 
standpoint of the true Adept and Seer rather 
than that of the scientist or materialistic philoso- 
pher, or the orthodox theologian, and depends 
for the recognition and acceptance of the absolute 
truth more upon its clear and positive enunciation 
through the soul than upon its exposition and 
defense by argument. 

To Read the Past and Future of Man. 

There is a true and Divine Occult Philosophy, 
as there is an Occult or Thaumaturgic Power. 
This Thaumaturgic Power was exercised by 
"Jesus The Master" and all followers of his 
school. This Power was the legitimate fruit of 
the regenerate or higher spiritual life to which 
they called the world, and in the Power and in- 
spiration of which they lived, spake and wrought. 
To understand the mysterious Occult influences 



14 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

of the Celestial realm upon the Intellectual and 
these upon the Terrestrial, amd to realize how to 
develop ourselves so as to he a Master who is 
capable of attracting to his own soul the supreme 
influences of these tvorlds, whereby he may he 
able to operate and do ivonderful things by these 
Occidt Powers — to read the past and future of 
man, to hnoiv the secret counsels of men, to attract 
ivealth, to overcome secret enemies and animals, to 
procure the love and favor of those around you, 
to deflect or expel disease, to prolong the days 
of your life on the earth plane, to foretell future 
events, to see clairvoyantly and realise things hap- 
pening many hundred miles away, and such likes 
as these. That this lies within the possibilities of 
the sold of man may seem incredible, yet read the 
''Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and 
East Indian Occidtism," a volume of almost 600 
pages, as well the ensuing treatise, and you will 
realize the above possibilities, confirmed and veri- 
fied by common sense and reason. For the cring- 
ing, sceptical. Material fool and doubter the 
writer cares nothing. 

Warning and Words of Advice to Crystal Gazers 
AND Those Who Use the Magic Mirror. 

The writer will hereby inform the student that 
whatever the desires are which have prompted you 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. . 15 

in the pursuit of a knowledge of OCCULTISM 
AND THE INVISIBLE FORCES OF NATURE, 
so you will reap, for ''LIKE ALWAYS AT- 
TRACTS LIKE.'' If you desire the knowledge 
to secure revenge, it is but proper that I should 
warn you that thou wilt, in any of the experiments 
contained in these treatises, draw or attract to 
thyself a revengeful demon, or an accursed infer- 
nal furious evil spirit, serving in the principal and 
law of wrath; if for worldly riches and aggran- 
dizement, then shalt thou have an earthiel or fiery 
spirit, which will delude thee with the riches of 
the central world; if for fame, or the blaze of 
glory, then you will have the evil spirits of pride, 
and they will be allotted thee, who will gratify 
thy inordinate desire of vain glory; for all these 
offices are there evil spirits who have been allotted, 
and they are ever eager to merge their evil will 
and spirit with yours ; they will through the same 
law attract thee to their own nature, and serve 
all thy desires and purposes according to the 
extent as thy desires are, and from what prin- 
ciples they proceed, so shalt thou be answered; 
but if thou desirest the knowledge but for the 
honor and glory of thy soul (GOD) and to help 
thy fellow-men, and, in great humility, fill thy 
heart with the love of all mankind, thou shalt then 
attract a good spirit, which will grant thy desires. 



16 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

and also to assist yon to overcome enemies. 
Therefore bear this advice: Seek for and desire 
that which is good; avoid attracting ALL Evil, 
either in thought, desire, word, or action; and 
then shalt thou reap the rewards of the soul which 
desires to develop the inner or spirit sight. Re- 
member, there are tivo ivays magically set before 
thee; choose which thou wilt, thou shalt be sure of 
thy reward. Remember, believe in yourself and 
you will succeed. 

STATE OF INTROSPECTION. 

By and through the law of realization, inspira- 
tion is awakened and established. Again, by and 
through the exercise of the powers of Auto-sug- 
gestion, self -thought, the supreme realization of 
self, and the innermost desire of life are reached 
and manifested, withholding all doubt, which 
opens up to us and connects us with the inward 
or latent supreme possibilities of soul (God). 

To have appreciative knowledge of this exalted 
condition of inspiration before it is experienced, 
and of the separate and distinct planes of con- 
sciousness and the specific dormant forces they 
involve, it will be necessary to keep before the 
mind the conception that we can, by constant ap- 
plication of suitable Auto-suggestion, manifest 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 17 

that perfection of the permanent inner-soul body. 
Further, it is necessary to hold this thought or 
conception and dwell upon it until it becomes the 
dominant impression and actual realization of our 
daily life, exerting its uplifting and toning influ- 
ence upon our personality, upon all our actions 
and thoughts. 

This subtle magnetism (soul essence or force) 
and aormal spheres of personality emanates from 
souls properly controlled, not bodies, and exert all 
their marvelous subtlety of action most potently 
on the minds of others. This inner Occult or soul 
power (vital magnetism), when properly exerted, 
will overcome and remove all adverse and oppo- 
site impressions which have become a life habit of 
identifying our personal life and being with the 
Physical body, and its dependence upon external 
things and conditions. The person who is a crea- 
ture of habit, and one whom the sense conscious- 
ness has so long held dominance, that the tend- 
ency of its impressions to continually recur is so 
fixed, it will perpetually reassert itself, unless the 
habit be broken by implanting through special and 
persistent Auto-suggestion the opposite impres- 
sion to dominate in its place. Any deficiency of 
character or habit, mental or physical, can be thus 
overcome or be broken by earnest, persistent 
effort in the right direction. 



18 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

This inspiration, realization or psychic con- 
sciousness established, however, breaks forever 
dominance of embarrassment and hesitation 
caused by sense impressions of self ; hence the im- 
portance of the immediate awakening and en- 
thronement of this inspiration (realization), and 
the self-control of this higher consciousness, the 
perfection of which is reached and effected by 
gaining supreme self-control through the law or 
door of realization. 



THE IVLA-CHC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 19 



CHAPTER II. 

Adeptship^ Clairvoyan^cy, Hindu Magic, Occult 
Influence, Mediumship and Inner Sight. 

On the west coast of India, about one hundred 
and thirty miles north of Bombay, lies the city of 
Baroda. Here the writer has seen many miracu- 
lous occult feats on many different occasions, per- 
formed in precisely the same manner, and the 
mystery to the outsider seemed only to deepen 
with every repetition. The Spirit and Occult pow- 
ers of the Hindus have been the wonder of India 
from a time antedating, perhaps, the building of 
the first pyramid. 

The early Jesuit Fathers and other pious ortho- 
dox hair brained mortals, startled at the sight, 
and at a total loss to account for it, very promptly 
attributed it to the devil, and this ingenious ex- 
planation is still persisted in by the missionaries 
and those superstitious, ignorant followers of 
Theology of the present, who assert that it is a sin 
even to witness these performances, and who 
anathematize the, Yohis as agents of Satan. 

Many are the wonders of Hindu Magic. I 
might go on relating a hundred or more of wonder- 



20 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

ful significance, and in every respect strange, 
which have been witnessed in that gorgeous land 
of the East, which, even in this nineteenth century 
of merciless Western materialism, is more of a 
fairyland than xirabia ever was at the time of 
Haroun al Easchid. 

That earliest cradle of our race and civilization, 
Hindustan, still holds the key to many Occult mys- 
teries. In the shade of its palm groves, in the 
depths of its jungles, in the wild recesses of its 
mountains, and behind the walls of its temples and 
lamaseries there yet lurks many a secret, which 
will tax the ingenuity of your best Western rea- 
soners for ages to come. 

The Eastern adepts and Hierophants, through 
their long practice of thought and attention, and 
the art of contemplation and ancestral practice for 
centuries, as well as the invocation of the spirits 
of the Astral Plane, have developed an intellectual 
insight, subtlety of thought, power of metaphysical 
analysis and philosophical reasoning which dwarfs 
into insignificance the best product of our Western 
Schools. 



There is a strange fascination in solitude. Man, 
that singular admixture of the bestial and divine, 
who in the society of his own species delights in 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 31 

being paltry and trivial, in developing the more 
ignoble and clownish side of his nature, becomes a 
different being when by necessity or choice he is 
left to his own meditations. The silence of the 
forests, the stillness of the desert, the vast expanse 
of the ocean, or the unbroken quiet of some 
secluded nook, awaken in him thoughts and feel- 
ings which the bustle of every-day life can never 
engender. Then the man is apt to propound to 
himself the great old riddle, and to descend into 
the abysmal depths of his own consciousness. 

The Law For an Adept. 

To one, then, who would become an Adept, and 
enter in earnest upon the process of induction into 
the higher states and planes of consciousness, the 
importance of recognizing and observing the law 
and adopting the habits which belong to the higher 
life he is seeking, will be apparent. That law is 
temperance in eating and drinking, and modera- 
tion in all the functions and relations of sex, avoid- 
ing in both those indulgences which perverted 
activities and abnormal desires demand. 

The Three Specific Occult Steps. 

There are but three steps involved in the act of 
withdrawing from the sense-plane (material 



22 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

world) and entering into communication with the 
things of either the psychic world or the spiritual 
plane, and they are so simple that the humblest 
intellect can comprehend them. The first is to 
bring the activities of the personal ego into abso- 
lute stillness, by diverting or withdrawing the 
attention and thought from everything relating 
to things for the sense-life, and centering them 
upon the specific object chosen for interior con- 
templation. The second is to empty the mind also 
of everything relating to self-interest, and lay 
down all preimpressions, prejudgments and per- 
sonal predilections, that the mind may be a perfect 
blank, on which the truth, undisturbed or unob- 
structed by the bias of prejudice or personal 
desire, may write its own story. The third is to 
firmly hold the mind in this unbiased receptive 
attitude upon the object in the full expectation of 
thus receiving the desired truth. 

It should be remembered that on the inner 
psychic plane the soul activities of everything pro- 
duce vibrations upon the psychic or ethereal 
atmosphere, which is so subtile and elastic that 
these vibrations extend indefinitely. When the 
mind is emptied and still, or passive, and opens 
itself to the psychic plane and the spirit world, 
and the attention is centered upon any given object 
or person, the soul vibrations of that particular 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 33 

object become focused upon the psychic organism, 
and awaken in the consciousness of the listener the 
very truth of that which made the vibrations. If 
the soul be in a perfectly receptive attitude, and 
you have attained, it can take on the condition and 
thus enter into such sympathetic unity with the 
dominant states of the person or thing upon which 
the attention is fixed that it will sense and Imow 
them as perfectly as if they were its own, so the 
real character and condition of persons and things 
becomes as tangible and real to the soul of the 
psychometrist as if they were his own. 

Claievoyancy. 

If, then, any one would enter into the secret life, 
real character and true condition of persons and 
things, so as to know the absolute truth concern- 
ing them, he must get mentally still, hold his 
attention steadily upon them, and keep in perfectly 
receptive and . unbiased attitude toward them. 
When this attitude of mind and will is perfectly 
held, the vibrations on the psychic ether from the 
spontaneous activities of the object upon which the 
attention is centered, will be gathered up in the 
personal life, and made to reproduce to and in the 
personal consciousness, the original condition that 
produced them, and thus be made to tell their own 



34 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

story without dissimulation or abating one jot or 
tittle of the truth in the matter. The same holds 
true of any particular or special thing which it is 
desirable and legitimate to know concerning them. 
When the attention is held in this receptive atti- 
tude upon such specific matter to learn the exact 
truth concerning it, that particular truth will be 
made clear and certain to the listening conscious- 
ness. 

It will thus be seen that this necessary listening 
and receptive attitude is possible only when the 
soul desires the absolute truth independent of all 
prejudgment, or any bias of personal considera- 
tion. We do not listen to another's conversation 
while we are talking to him, neither can we receive 
the true story of another's life or character on 
the psychic plane with our mind upon him, full of 
active prejudgment, and the bias of personal con- 
siderations. 

This attitude of desiring and seeking the truth 
and nothing but the truth, independent of all per- 
sonal consideration and bias, involves also the 
attitude and determination to be absolutely just on 
the basis of this truth, independent of all personal 
consideration or bias of any kind whatsoever. 
This attitude will prevent any misuse of the 
knowledge of the truth thus gained, and also keep 
the desire to that only which is legitimate. The 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 35 

desire for that which is not legitimate destroys the 
condition of reliability. 

This twofold attitude is an absolute necessity 
for the successful development and exercise of the 
psychometric power and true spiritual seership, 
and the holding of this attitude will most certainly 
enable any one to do this. But for one to hold this 
impersonal and impartial attitude absolutely, he 
will need, as I have said, to come in touch and 
sympathetic unity with the Impersonal Life and 
Spirit of the Divine and Absolute, which should 
be the first or supreme desire of every one. This 
awakens and enthrones the divine and impersonal 
ego of his own being, which is always in unity and 
oneness with the astral world, and holds the per- 
sonal life in the consciousness of its spiritual 
supremacy. This is why the writer emphasizes 
the necessity of first opening the spiritual con- 
sciousness and developing the inner or spirit sight, 
and enthroning the spiritual nature in the personal 
life, in which the impersonal and impartial atti- 
tude becomes the spontaneous and permanent law 
of the life. 

The three successive steps, then, which open the 
soul to free and unobstructed activity and com- 
munication on both the psychic and spirtual 
planes, may be summed up and briefly stated thus : 
First, get the personal ego still, and empty the 



2e MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

mind and feelings of every bias and standard of 
self and sense ; that is, put out of the mind every- 
thing relating to the sense-life and the desires of 
self, thus putting the soul in a perfectly receptive 
attitude for the unbiased and unobstructed revela- 
tion of truth. Second: When this passive state 
is fully induced, fix and hold the attention in the 
passive yet expectant attitude upon the specific 
object about which the truth is desired. Third: 
These two steps having been fully taken, stand 
firmly and persistently in the receptive and listen- 
ing attitude toward the object for the immediate 
revelation of the truth concerning it, and in the 
full expectation of getting it, and ''according to 
your faith" shall it he done unto you. This 
receptive state, and listening, expectant attitude, 
will certainly open the consciousness to the psychic 
vibrations which write unerringly their story on 
the receptive mind. 

If, in this third step, we entertain doubts and 
questionings, we are not holding the receptive and 
listening attitude. This was the constant attitude 
and normal condition of "Jesus The Master," and 
so without study or effort he always stood in the 
light of absolute truth concerning everything with 
which he came into personal relations. He said : 
"I can of mine oivn self do nothing; as I hear, I 
judge (always in the listening attitude for the 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 27 

inner voice or revelation) : and my judgment is 
just; because I seek not mine oivnwill, hut always 
listen to the inner voice from the astral plane." 

To gain the mastery of these three steps, so as 
to be able to assume this attitude at will, requires 
no more qualification, attention and persevering 
application than does the mastery of any of the 
ordinary accomplishments, as music, art, or the 
mechanical handicrafts of industry; but, as in all 
these, the Neophyte may be greatly helped by the 
personal sympathy and guidance of those who 
have had experience in overcoming, and have 
attained some degree of experimental Adeptship. 
Very few, if any, will succeed absolutely without 
this. Even Jesus needed and received the sym- 
pathy and ministry of John the Baptist. Where 
two of you are agreed, etc., it shall be done for 
them. 

There is one advantage in seeking the mastery 
of these three steps over that of the ordinary 
accomplishments of life, and that is the immediate 
help of divine inspiration if the seeker begin at 
the center of his being; since this brings him at 
once under the transforming chemistry of the 
spiritual life, and the awakening touch of the 
quickening power that comes directly from the 
Supreme Center of the Divine and Absolute. The 
benefit derived from the ministry of others is the 



2S MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

help they may give in bringing one to the true 
attitude within himself. 

He who gains the mastery of these three steps, 
so as to be able to assume and hold this attitude 
at will — nay, to hold it as the permanent and 
normal attitude of his life, by having applied it to 
the opening and co-ordination of the three planes 
of activity in the personal consciousness — ^has 
gained the psychometric key to all legitimate 
knowledge, ivisdom, seership and occult mastery 
of being, and may take his place in the Mighty 
Brotherhood of the Illuminati, Magi, and Hiero- 
phants of the ages, the twice-born Sons of God, 
who is Immanent, and Brothers of ''Jesus the 
Master," who was the greatest clairvoyant that 
has ever lived. 

Conditions For Spirit Sight. 

Those who in the true sense deserve the appella- 
tion of ''ADEPTS" in India are ' not the specu- 
lative philosophers or elaborations of cosmogonies. 
The real adepts are often remarkably deficient in 
philosophical and even general information. 

The writer has found among them individuals 
who would be deemed exceedingly ignorant if 
judged by our Western standard of education; 
men, for instant, who had not the haziest knowl- 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 29 

edge of geography, and to whom even the history 
of their own country was in a great measure a 
sealed book. Yet these men were the custodians 
of Occult power and secrets for which many an 
intellectual giant would readily exchange twenty 
years of his life, secrets which so far have success- 
fully baffled the researches of the best Western 
thinkers and experimenters, and which not only 
enabled the possesor to suspend or defy the ordi- 
nary "laws of nature," but to trimnph over time 
and space with an ease and readiness which the 
Greeks hardly dared to attribute to their Olympian 
gods. 

There are among the adepts men of vast mental 
caliber, philosophers in the highest sense, men 
whose society is coveted by the foremost Hindu 
scholars and Western scientists, and who bear the 
stamp of genius in their countenance. But they 
are rare exceptions, like everything else that is 
great and noble in this sorrowful world. 

What I desire to dwell upon is the fact that 
adeptship in the real esoteric science of India does 
not presuppose great learning or intellectual 
superiority on the part of the initiate.* 



* The years of probation and the almost incredible hardships 
which are often inflicted upon the Neophyte before he is deemed 
worthy of reception into the "brotherhood," are more intended 
to test his physical endurance and observe his trustworthiness than 
to increase his store of information. 



30 mystic test book, hindu occult chambers. 

Specific Methods of Concentration. 

The great principle which underlies the almost 
endless modification of Hindu Occultism may be 
embodied in the term ''ABSTEACTION"— 
namely, the attainment of as complete a state of 
introspective vision as possible, by the withdrawal 
of the senses of sight, hearing, touch, etc., from the 
external world. 

Perhaps it will be of advantage to the reader if 
I here describe a little more fully what is meant 
by introspection. Suppose a mathematician in 
order to master some intricate problem were to 
seek refuge within the solitude of his four walls 
and endeavor to concentrate his mind completely 
upon the task before him. Now, if his success 
depended upon his power to reach complete 
abstraction, he would speedily discover that he was 
far from reaching the desired goal; although he 
might secure solitude, he would not be able to 
exclude sound, for various noises are bound to 
reach and attract part of his attention, in spite of 
the most rigid a]3plication of his will. 

Assuming, however, that all sound were ex- 
cluded, there are impressions of sight which are 
an equal if not a greater obstacle in the path of 
him who would seek to attain the introspective 
state. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 31 

He might resort to the simple method of shut- 
ting his eyes, hoping thereby to get rid of the 
external world and reach the introspective state. 
Futile effort! There still would remain the con- 
sciousness of that fact that objects of various 
kinds were surrounding him, which is a disturbing 
influence. 

Now, granting that the perceptions of sound, 
sight, and even touch, could for a time at least be 
completely extinguished, there still would remain 
of this or that sorrow of frustrated hopes, of busi- 
ness troubles, of all the petty vexations and annoy- 
ances of life. 

Unless these also be completely annihilated, 
there can be no such thing as abstraction in the 
sense of the esoteric philosophy of India. The 
various methods followed by the students of 
Occultism in the Far East, from the fakir to the 
greatest adept, have only one sole aim — namely, 
the attainment of a state of complete introspec- 
tion or interior concentration of the mind. 

When this condition is reached, as all Masters 
know, "The mind is a scroll upon which nature 
will write." In other words, the Adept in that 
state identifies himself with the Astral world or 
universal consciousness, and partakes in a meas- 
ure of the divine attribute of omniscience as well 
as omnipotence. 



32 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

Ceystal Gazing Among the Hindu Seeks. 

Among the Hindu Seers and initiates the prac- 
tice of crystal-gazing is largely followed as a 
means of enforcing the introspective condition. 

A piece of crystal, usually polished (Japanese 
balls of rock crystal about three inches in diam- 
eter are in common use all over India), is placed 
before the observer, who will seek some solitary 
spot and steadily gaze on the shining surface. 
The student who practices crystal-gazing will 
obtain results which will be a surprise and a 
revelation to him. 

The eye should be placed on a level with the 
crystal and about ten inches away from the latter ; 
a light must be adjusted sideways, so that its image 
is not in the line of vision, and a piece of black 
cloth should be suspended behind the crystal. 
Within less than two minutes the Adept has 
attained a degree of introspection, and will then 
behold in the Astral light which will envelop the 
crystal surface whatever he wishes to ascertain; 
for instance, what a certain person is doing at a 
certain moment. Even the past and future will 
become revealed and he can read your past and 
future as easily as you are reading this page. 

A little practice two or three times a day will 
enable almost any one to reach this degree of 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 33 

Occultism, and the clearness of the images thus 
obtained, coupled with the correctness of the in- 
formation, will be an everlasting surprise to the 
Neophyte. 

Of course, what he apparetly sees in the crystal 
is in reality transpiring in the Astral light. He 
has reached a degree of introspective vision, but 
is obliged to make use of some external tangible 
object, which for the time being becomes his 
medium. A plain or concave mirror, set in a 
wooden frame, and floated upon water, will answer 
the same purpose, and many Fakirs enforce the 
abstract condition by merely gazing into the water 
which they have poured into a small earthen bowl. 

The breathing exercises resorted to by the so- 
called Hatha Yogha school of Occultism have no 
other purpose than to identify the consciousness 
of the individual with that of the astral plane, and 
fifty pages might be filled with a description of 
the endless variety of methods which this school 
enjoins. 

The true adept, however, who has attained to 
the highest pinnacles of esoteric wisdom, scorns to 
make use of these external and to him childish 
modes of introspection ; he has come to recognize 
that "the truth lies tvithin the depth of his own 
consciousness/^ and he can place himself in the 
abstract state within a few seconds by mere will 



34 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT OHAMBEES. 

power, whereas, tlie beginner identifies the occult 
phenomena with the crystal, the mirror or the 
magic cup, which he correspondingly reverences 
and regards of great value in assisting him to get 
a start.* 

Mind-Eeading in India. 

The development of telepathy, or mind-reading, 
in India as a national characteristic, is amazing; 
it manifests itself in the every-day life of her peo- 
ple and reaches its climax in the attainment of the 
masters of occult wisdom on the high plateau of 
Thibet. The wonderful manner in which intelli- 
gence is communicated, or, rather, the speed with 
which news of an important character travels in 
the East, is a case in point. During the late 
Afghan war it invariably happened that the news 
of any success or disaster to the British was known 



* It will be observed that a specific definition and description 
of "spiritual gifts," "Power or Sight" embraces every phrase 
of a legitimate occult power, knowledge, insight and mastery ever 
claimed or sought by the Magi, Seer, Adept, Apostles and Hiero- 
phants of the world, and that the great Apostle clearly intimates 
that they are for and should be experienced by the humblest of 
the Master's followers. 

It will be further noticed that the source of the new and 
higher knowledge, wisdom and power here recognized and specifi- 
cally emphasized as free to all, is ascribed to the direct onduement 
of the Spirit (not spirits, or angels), but the Supreme and Univer- 
sal Spirit from which men as well as angels derive their life, 
their intelligence and their power, and to which, therefore, all 
alike, the humble as well as the most exalted have equal access. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 35 

all over India long before the authorities at Cal- 
cutta were officially informed. Thus, for instance, 
the details of the battle of Maineaud were dis- 
cussed in the bazaars of Calcutta for days before 
the news was received at headquarters, to the utter 
amazement of the vice-royal government. 

This, in spite of the fact that the British had 
the advantage of sending dispatches by couriers 
down the valley of the Kabul River and through 
to Khyber Pass to Peshawur, and telegraphing 
cypher messages from there to Calcutta. It is 
absurd to try to account for this on the supposi- 
tion that the news will travel from mouth to mouth, 
as it were, and from village to village. There are 
intervening mountain ranges and great deserts, 
villages and hamlets many miles apart and exten- 
sive ranges, where scarcely any human habitation 
is to be met with. Besides the Hindus are not 
given to much travel, and there is little, if any, 
intercommunication by means of letters or mes- 
sages of any sort. AVliy, the news of the great 
disaster which befell Napoleon's army at Moscow 
took over six weeks to reach Paris, and this at a 
time when postal communication was already well 
organized all over Europe. In India it would have 
been known all over the land in less than two 
hours, and not merely in the sense of a vague 
presentiment that something had happened, but in 



36 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

the shape of a distinct vision, which, although not 
seen by everybody, is beheld by tens of thousands, 
who are not slow to communicate it to their fellow- 
men. 

Method. 

The method to accomplish this is a very simple 
one: LOOK INTO YOUR OWN SELF*, and if 
you do this rightly you will see everything, and 
will be under no obligations to ask further ques- 
tions. 



* If we compare the teachings of the Eastern sages with the 
cosmology taught by the writer, and substitute the Sanscrit of 
the Tibetan terms used by the former for those invented by the 
latter, the two systems will be found almost, if not wholly, 
identical. According to the Eastern sages, there is a ceaseless 
activity going on during the state of Pralaya (the night of 
Brahm), in that incomprehensible eternal First Cause that may 
be looked upon in one of its many aspects as being Matter, 
Motion, and Space, in an absolute sense, which is beyond the grasp 
of our relative conception. Its motion is the unconscious latent 
life inherent in it. This is the Yliaster of the writer, the *'root 
of Matter," or Mula prakriti of the Vendantins, out of which 
Prakriti (Matter) and Purusha (Space) become manifest as body 
and form. In this, The Absolute, Infinite, and Unconditioned, 
being the endless aggregation of everything conditioned and finite, 
the germ of potentialities of all things are contained. It is the 
Limbus Chaos and the germs contained in it that are developed by 
the action of the Universal Mind, Dyan-Chohans, and the power 
of wisdom, Fo-hat — to use the Tibetan words. Thjis the Universe 
may be said to be a product of Cosmic Ideation and Cosmic 
Energy, acting not at random or in an arbitrary manner, but 
according to a certain order produced by previous causes, and 
which constitute the Law. The existence of this inevitable and 
unchangeable law is frequently alluded to by the writer. As, for 
instance: "Does not holy writ say that God spoke: Am I not 
the God who made the dumb and the deaf, the blind and the see- 
ing? What else does this mean, but that he is creator of all 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 37 

The exercise of THAUMATUEGIO POWER by 
the Christ and his Apostles has mistakenly been 
regarded as a supernatural and miraculous gift, 
bestowed for an exceptional purpose, instead of 
the working of an OCCULT law to be practically 
studied, mastered and applied in universal experi- 
ence. 

There is not the slightest warrant for the 
miracle view in the teaching of either Jesus or his 
Apostles. On the contrary, this power was spe- 
cifically emphasized by them as the legitimate fruit 
of the regenerate or higher spiritual life to which 
they called the world and in the power and inspira- 
tion in which they lived, spake and wrought. 

''Jesus the Master" insisted upon the exercise 
of this power as a necessity to the successful 
preaching and spread of his gospel, which taught 
the Immanence of God, through the world. 

things, of good and of evil?" The writings of the Buddhists 
teach the same doctrine, saying that there is only One Power, 
SvabhaTat. It cannot act otherwise than according to the law of 
cause and effect, and that makes a useful tree grow as well as 
useless stone in the bladder of man, according to the causes that 
have been produced by previous effects. Each act and each 
thought has a cause, and the cause of the cause is the Law. 

The identity of the doctrines. Philosophy and Theosophy, by 
the writer with that of the eastern sages and Adepts will prove 
that he was taught these things in the East. Nevertheless this is 
not essential; for to the opened spiritual understanding of man 
God is as near in the West as He is in the East. He who is 
capable, developed to open his spiritual eyes, may see the sun him- 
self and does not need to be informed about its existence by some- 
body having seen the sun in the Orient. 



38 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, mNDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

In choosing and preparing his disciples for the 
preaching of his gospel, we read that he first 
taught them the use of this power as a necessary 
condition of successful preaching. 

"And when he had called unto him his twelve 
disciples, he gave them power against unclean 
spirits to cast them out, and to heal all 
manner of sickness, and all manner of disease." 

The object of the writer of this book is an analyt- 
ical epitome of the Theosophy and Occultism of 
' ' Jesus the Master, ' ' and to brief!}'' show its foun- 
dation in the nature of things, and the constitution 
of man as a basis of an intelligent and compelling 
faith, a faith luhich "speaks and it is done, which 
commands and it stands fast." 

The Oriental Occultism and Theosophy, vener- 
able with age, having its origin in antiquity and 
the Far East, and which has been handed down 
from almost prehistoric times "through genera- 
tions and generations of adepts" is now, by the 
author's efforts, being introduced into the Western 
world. 

By a growing, well-organized and tolerably 
widespread propaganda, it is being popularized, 
epitomized, and vigorously promulgated in both 
Europe and America, for wherever "The Great 
Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East 
Indian Occultism" has been studied the Hindu 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 39 

methods are adopted, they being superior to all 
others. 

Let the initiate take up the study of Hindu 
Magic and Occultism and give it the attention its 
importance demands as something to be under- 
stood and applied as a jpractical and demonstrable 
science. 

The writer would urge this study and effort 
because of the profound conviction : — That this is 
the legitimate work and the rightful province of 
man as a spiritual being and child of ''The 
Astral, ' ' whose duty as well as privilege is to stand 
in relation to his environments, in the image and 
likeness of those in spirit life holding dominion. 
It was to bring mankind to this realization that 
the CHRIST GOSPEL and ministry was open 
to the world. Now that the time seems specially 
auspicious, because of the present opening up of 
ORIENTAL OCCULTISM AND ESOTERIC 
PHILOSOPHY to Western thought, and the con- 
fronting of the Orthodox Christian church, which 
is a farce, by the Eastern world with its mystic 
orders and brotherhoods of "HOLY MEN," 
^'YOGHIS," and HIEROPHANTS as possessing 
the miracle-working THAUMATURGIC POWER. 

The Christ life and teaching have hereto been 
so exclusively studied from the standpoint of 
theology and ethics by the leaders of Christian 



40 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

tliouglit and Dogmatic Theology that the attention 
of the whole CHRISTIAN world has been diverted 
from the rational and practical study of the 
OCCULT POWEE exercised by the Master and 
his Apostles, and which they emphasized in their 
teaching as an equally important and indeed a 
vitally practical factor in the new and higher life, 
which they call the world. Starting out with the 
baseless impression this "OCCULT POWER," 
being exceptional in human experience, was neces- 
sarily supernatural and miraculous, it has never 
occurred to the theologians and students of the 
"NEW TESTAMENT" arcanum to regard the 
so-called miracles as possible, legitimate of an 
occult law and power to be practically studied, 
mastered and applied in universal experience. 

Nevertheless, an unbiased and careful considera- 
tion of the direct and emphatic teaching of ' ' Jesus 
the Master" and his Apostles will convince the 
most hesitating and conservative mind that they 
certainly regarded the possession and exercise of 
this power, as well as Astral or inner sight, as the 
orderly and legitimate result of certain specific 
mental and spiritual attainments possible to all, 
and which was the special work to urge upon all. 

It will be observed that this specific definition 
and description of "spiritual gifts" embraces 
every phase of a legitimate power, knowledge, 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 41 

inner sight, and mastery ever claimed or sought 
for by the Magi and Hierophants of the World, 
and that ''Jesus the Master" clearly intimated 
that they are for and should be experienced by the 
Master's followers. 

It will be further noticed that the source of the 
new and higher knowledge, wisdom and power 
here recognized and specifically emphasized as free 
to all, is applied to the direct and enduement of 
the spirit (not spirits or angels), but the SU- 
PREME and UNIVERSAL SPIRIT, from which 
men, as well as angels, derive their life, their intel- 
ligence and their power, and to which, therefore, 
all alike, the humblest as well as the most exalted, 
have equal access. 

Those who can read between the lines may have 
observed that far from discrediting wholesale the 
reported stories and wonders of Eastern Magic, 
the most advanced scientific reasoners of the West 
in their more recent utterances appear quite inter- 
ested in the subject, having come to recognize that 
there may be such things as natural forces or sub- 
stances on this planet which have as yet eluded 
the grasp of the Western science forces, which 
their chemists and their physicians can neither 
gauge, weigh nor measure; and that there is a 
possibility that among a subtle race like the 
HINDUS, which is immeasurably older in civiliza- 



43 MYSTIO TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

tion and experience than their own, some of these 
forces may have been discovered even thousands 
of years ago, and preserved among the wisest of 
its representatives (adepts), who in consequence 
of such knowledge can perform feats which to one 
of limited understanding are perfectly miraculous. 

Apart from the material progress or outward 
development which the Hindus had already at- 
tained, which they are apt to call prehistoric, as 
evinced by the splendor of their buildings and the 
luxuries and the refinement of their civilization in 
general, it would seem as if this greatest and most 
subtle of Aryan races had developed an inner life 
even more strange and wonderful. 

Let those who are imbued with the prevalent 
modern conceit that the Westerners have reached 
the highest pinnacle of intellectual culture, or that 
Orthodoxy is right, go to India. Let them go to 
the land of mystery, which was ancient when the 
great Alexander crossed the INDUS with his 
warriors, ancient when ABRAHAM THE JEW 
roamed the plains of CHALDEA with his cattle, 
ancient when the first pyramid was built ; and if, 
after a careful study of Hindu magic, life, religion, 
and philosophy, the inquirer is still of the opinion 
that the palm of intellectual advancement belongs 
to the western world, or that Orthodox Christianity 
is not founded on a fabulous Jewish Myth, let him 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 43 

lose no time in having his own cranium exam- 
ined*. The HINDUS, owing to their intense love 
for solitary meditation, which has been one of 
their pronounced characteristics from time im- 
memorial, have acquired mental faculties of which 
the materialists have no conception. 

There are in man latent powers which are sus- 
ceptible of the highest culture, and it is more than 
probable that a faculty once aroused and persist- 
ently exercised for a number of generations may 
develop into a permanent characteristic. 

It would seem as if among the HINDUS specu- 
lative philosophy had been the ruling fancy from 
a very remote antiquity, and, moreover, that kind 
of philosophy which does not depend upon an 
interchange of idea for its advancement, but is 
based almost entirely upon intuition; viz., upon 
the cultivation of certain mysterious innate facul- 
ties, which are presumed to lie dormant even in 
the breast of the savage. They have accomplished 

* I need not amuse the reader with the speculations of western 
Christians endeavoring to convert others to their belief in a 
tyrant of a God and a belief in the Scriptures. 

Indeed I might not amuse him, for it is a pitiful recital 
throughout. Indeed there is no sadder spectacle in the intellectual 
world, than that of men and women possessed, of really great 
mental possibilities, frittering away their time and their self- 
respect in trying to make a superstition appear reasonable by 
explaining its absurdities in an illogical manner, and, instead of 
walking erect in the dignity of a rational manhood, staggering 
along in a blind stupor, produced by the fumes of mysticism, 
superstition and Dogmatic Theology. 



44 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

and have certainly come nearer the truth than the 
Western materialist, with his endless empiricalism 
and experimental torture of matter. 

The HINDUS in their efforts to raise the veil 
which hides the mysteries of time and space, dis- 
covered that which is apt to cause extreme sur- 
prise in the Western NEOPHYTE, and which is 
destined to play a great part in the future of this 
country. Their triumph in this direction was the 
discovery and application of that strange 
PSYCHIC FOECE known to the Western people 
as HYPNOTISM. 

The American people have just begun to real- 
ize that there is such a force, and are on the 
threshold, as it were, of a dominion which is as 
boundless as it is marvelous. But the discoveries 
which are being made today were made ages ago 
by the early SASCRITIC INDIANS and IRA- 
NIANS, and while a knowledge of the subject in 
this country is chiefly derived from, or based upon, 
the experiments of a few materialistic scientists 
and investigators during very recent years, the 
HINDUS have the experience of at least centuries 
behind them. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 45 



CHAPTEE III. 

The Hindu ^s and Dogmatic Theology. 

The ancient Hindu's idea of God differed much 
from the modern notion that He thrusts the 
wicked, and very often the innocent also, whom 
He has predestinated to sin, and who are undoubt- 
edly a portion of Himself, and made in His own 
image, into burning lakes and pitchy gulfs, where 
they are everlastingly tormented by revengeful 
and spiteful devils, with no view to their amend- 
ment, with no pretense to their operating as an 
example, with no possibility of their escape. And 
so fond is God their Father of subjecting His 
children to this fiery tartarus that He employs 
the chief of the devils to tempt them into sinful- 
ness (He Himself having no prescience or fore- 
knowledge as to how they will act when tempted), 
so that He may reward them for their resistance — 
which is generally unaccomplished — or torment 
them for their submission, which unhappily is 
their most usual fate. And this chief devil pos- 
sesses enormous power; is omnipresent; is the 
Prince of Air or Space ; is almost next to God in 



46 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

sovereign dominion, and in contriving intellect, 
and wages everlasting war with the Almighty and 
his pure spirits; nor can the Omnipotent Maker 
and Master of the Universe reduce him to submis- 
sion, or repress his wickedness, but is simply con- 
strained as well as he can to counteract his hor- 
rible devices. Great scholars argue for this ; great 
churchmen hold it ; the masses are taught that it 
is divine truth, but somehow or other man's in- 
stinct rebels against it, and there rests at the 
bottom of almost every human heart an innate 
notion that it is all a lie, imagined or invented in 
the days of Jewish or monkish barbarism to 
frighten the ignorant; but wholly without any 
warranty in fact. 

Eternal damnation orthodoxy holds to be the 
true end and punishment of all who in their lives 
deny a heaven. 

The fact, however, of the Hindu's* idea of God, 
and their knowledge of celestial laws, being so 



* The followers of Mohammed, however, put some rather puz- 
zling questions to our Petro-Paulites. "Why," said Murrane 
Sing (a Hindoo who can read English), "do you not convert the 
Jews, who live among you, know your virtues, and the excellence 
of your faith, and whose forefathers knew of the prophecies, and 
saw the wonders mentioned in your Vedas?" (meaning the 
English Bible). A Protestant replied they were a stubborn race, 
and the denunciations against their race had been fulfilled; and 
instanced the occasions and times. "That is the more in favor 
of my argument," replied Murrane, "for if, under the sufferings 
they have endured, and the accomplishment of the curse threat- 
ened them, they still remain obstinate and sinful, how are we to 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 47 

far greater than those which form the basis of 
mere European creeds, furnishes a reason why all 
endeavors at their conversion to western views 
have failed, except among the lowest, poorest, and 
most degraded outcasts. An attempt by Chris- 
tians to enlighten Orientals on the subject of God 
is about as wise as if an idiot sought to initiate a 
sage into the wonders of philosophy. In all true 
theological knowledge, in all profound, august or 
ennobling ideas of the Divine Polity, the West is 
hundreds of years behind the East ; nor can it ever 
attain the splendid heights of speculation to which 
these men have reached, until it seeks its inspira- 
tion at other sources than those from which it has 
so long drawn it, and enlarges its views of God's 
providence, until it can understand the broad, 
beautiful and comprehensive basis developed in 
the Divine works of God ; a basis that appears as 
universal in its nature as the very laws of light 
and air themselves. 

be convinced, much less converted, who know nothing of these 
signs and wonders of which you speak and have neither had 
promises or threats held out to us, except by mortals like our- 
selves who may or may not intend well? At least, they have 
nothing to show us to the contrary but windy words." He then 
referred to Paul, who, he observed, undoubtedly was a prophet, 
and whose mission, though it appeared very probable, had made 
no effect on King Agrippa, who was as civilized as the Hindoos; 
yet he was not to be persuaded, even though one of the principal 
propagators of it was present before him. ' ' Then how, ' ' he 
added, "am I to be persuaded by those who are neither saints 
nor prophets'? " 



48 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

With all this blaze of knowledge before us, clear 
and shining as the light of the Orient, the question 
arises, How comes it to pass that the whole West 
is still in darkness; and why are Europeans and 
Americans now more hopelessly ignorant of their 
past, their present, or their future, or of the sub- 
lime and pure nature of the Supreme Being, than 
our forefathers are shown to have been in remote 
ages; when Orthodox historians tell us that all 
was superstition ; when philosophers hold that we 
were monkeys or savages; and priests pretend 
that there was nothing but impiety? The answer 
seems to me to be this, that the Church, whether 
of Rome, or of Luther, which now sways the con- 
sciences of men, wages an incessant war upon the 
acquisition of true Knowledge, and perpetually 
interferes to dwarf the intellect and to destroy the 
groivth of education. That the Popes for the first 
fifteen hundred years of Christendom, and from 
thence also until this moment did, and have done, 
all they could, to h^ep the tvorld in a state of bar- 
barism, is now a truism so universally acknowl- 
edged, and so loudly proclaimed by Protestant 
ivriters, that no man would condescend to argue 
it; for to do so tvould imply that the matter might 
be disputed, or that our senses had deceived us as 
to the patent facts. That great scholars arose in 
those dark ages proves nothing; for those men 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 49 

were not the children of the papacy, but were the 
disciples and missionaries of knowledge, and they 
were as entirely independent of that odious super- 
stition as if it had no existence. The Papal church, 
supreme in Europe, ivas based on ignorance, and 
could only he maintained ivhile ignorance con- 
tinued. The whole efforts of the clergy, therefore, 
have been and are directed to this one end, to keep 
the world in their leading strings, by crushing out 
the mind of the ivorld. That they did so, and suc- 
ceeded, history proves; that they still labor in the 
awful and unholy calling is clear to all ivho take 
the trouble to investigate; and that to this one end 
the soldiers of that fearfid fabric must necessarily 
adhere or be destroyed is the inevitable conclusion 
to which those arrive who have found her to be 
Falsehood, and who know that Knoivledge is her 
deadly foe. 

The Lutheran churches pursue the same course. 
Holding to a creed devised by a narrow-minded 
and illiterate monk, whose early training had for- 
ever incapacitated him from broad, comprehensive 
or enlightened views; who, though a passionate 
thinker and a bold writer, and a man of daring 
courage, was absolutely ignorant of everything 
but mere monastic theology, than which it would 
be difficult to discover more exquisite fooling, and 
who in his later years of beer and bigotry was so 



50 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS, 

immersed in vulgar squabbles about maniacal 
dogmas, that he had no time, even if he possessed 
the intellect, to enlarge his stock of ideas. The 
Protestant sects, dissipated into a thousand 
despicable conventicles, every one of which calls 
itself ' ' Christ 's people, ' ' have clung with desper- 
ate tenacity to the smallest and most degrading- 
notions of the power, majesty and wisdom of the 
Supreme Being; of the universality of His Laws, 
and the unchanging grandeur of His attributes — 
notions that would shock a Pagan, but which re- 
ceive a ready approval among the simple savages 
of the South Seas, or the dark-skinned lowly 
races of Africa. With these communities the 
Divine Fabricator of the Universe is a white-tied 
parson, with the wretched changing passions, and 
the still more wretched wants and necessities of a 
parson ; now enraged, now capricious, now deceit- 
ful, now encouraging deceit; breathing pestilence 
and death ujaon the very beings whose hearts he 
has hardened so as to make them merit these 
calamities; swearing many oaths (for the Bible 
says God will smite and curse the children of the 
earth), and immediately after violating those 
oaths ; the instigator to murder, the patron of in- 
cest, the pardoner of adultery, the seducer of a 
young virgin who was the affianced wife of an- 
other, so that true Christianity between Peter and 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 51 

Paul is like Jesus crucified between two thieves. 
But why pursue the dreadful theme! or why com- 
mit to print the fearful thoughts that naturally 
arise in the mind, as the Atheist God of Petro- 
Paulite, Europe and America looms up before us, 
covered with the blood of millions, whom a belief 
in his dark mystery has borne into ruin. 

Let those who desire to knoiv more on this sub- 
ject, and the Bible, which history shows is a 
forgery, read the author's tivo late books, ''The 
Immanence of God, Know Thyself," 432 pages, 
and ''God, The Bible, Truth, and Christian Theol- 
ogy," 570 pages, and he will have his eyes opened 
as they have never been before. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 

Special Features — Hindu and Egyptian Crystal 
Gazing — Astral and Spirit Sight — Indian 
Crystal Gazing^ Clairvoyance and The Hindu 
Magic Mirror. 

PAKT TWO. 

CHAPTEE IV. 

Spirit or Astral Sight. 

Most every living person possesses the natural 
gift of Clairvoyance or clear "Spirit Sight" to a 
very marked degree, and yet do not know what use 
to make of their gift. Many people possess this 
power in an undeveloped state, capable of develop- 
ment to any extent when they will use these gifts 
to their advantage and take proper means to 
unfold them. 

Clairvoyance, or Astral Sight (state of intro- 
spection), is not a sixth sense as some writers 

52 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM: OF INDIA. 53 

wrongly state, it is the true development of man's 
ordinary inner or Spiritual Sight, which has been 
stunted and injured by the materialism and igno- 
rance which rules the world today. 

Live a natural life, as did the old Seers, philos- 
ophers, in the by-gone ages, when the highest and 
best only reigned supreme, and men and women 
were taught to introduce the state of introspection 
Sit will, and you can develop all your spiritual gifts 
or inner sight. 

The first consideration is, of course, the rules 
for sitting, the necessary precautions for develop- 
ment, and the best time and conditions which are 
to be adopted by the would-be Seer in his attempts 
at unfoldment. You must also study all that has 
been said here about the interior focalization of 
the mind. That you will succeed if you follow any 
one of the methods I am teaching you is certain, 
and you will have phenomenal success if you will 
only persevere and cleanse your mind from all 
sordid material and unworthy thoughts. 

In a word, unless you will attempt to live the 
Life, you cannot attain more than the ordinary gift 
of Crj^stal Gazing, but if you will go on and seek 
higher, and believe you will succeed, you cannot 
have any limit to the extent of your spirit and 
Astral Sight in any place, at any time and under 
any conditions. 



54 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

You will be able to introduce Spirit Sight at will, 
and read in the Astral Light the mysteries of the 
past, present and future, both in your own life 
and in that of others ; all will be as an open book 
to you and the amount of this knowledge you 
choose to reveal to others will be entirely depend- 
ent on your own good judgment. 

The conditions of health to be sought are : — 

1st. The better your health, the clearer your 
vision, although many people in indifferent health 
do see, yet they have not the greater powers. You 
should live as far as possible in the fresh air, take 
a reasonable amount of exercise, and try to hold 
the thought of health and purity ever before you. 

2nd. Cleanliness is essential, this includes body 
and clothes, you should bathe all over once a week 
and change your linen at least once or twice a 
week or oftener, if possible. 

3rd. Diet is also a necessity and I can assure 
you that you will not develop satisfactorily if you 
eat too much meat, as it causes heat and inharmony 
in the blood, disturbs the system, generating an 
irritating condition and causes the people who eat 
it to give off a coarse red aura, or asteal force, 
which I will explain later, entirely opposed to all 
conditions essential to spirit sight. At any rate, 
eat as little as possible, but the amount of progress 
you make almost entirely depends upon your 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 55 

absolute belief and faith that you will succeed, for 
without true faith you will accomplish nothing. 

All doubt and disbelief that you will be able to 
develop your inner sight must be discarded. 

The next question is that of breathing, this has 
a great deal to do with the development of your 
Astral Sight. 

Draw in a deep slow breath, and exhale very 
slowly, try this during the sitting for the first week 
and then change to the following : — 

Inhale with closed mouth while you count four, 
hold the breath ivhile you count sixteen and exhale 
slowly ivhile you count eight (mentally, of course). 

Have the room in which you sit clean and free 
from impurities, with plenty of fresh air. Some 
fresh-cut flowers to place near your crystal or 
whatever you use for a medium are very desirable 
but not absolutely necessary. The question arises 
what class of persons are most likely to develop 
and succeed in obtaining the state of introspec- 
tion? I can frankly inform you that all people can 
develop, provided they are faithful and believe, for 
*' according to your faith be it unto you." 

Positive, magnetic people make the best Seers 
as a rule, although the fair and languid type often 
develop into excellent Seers, but their visions are 
seldom quite as reliable as the positive type 
quoted. The necessary qualifications are self con- 



56 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

trol, the power of concentration and the desire to 
attain these gifts of the spirit, together with gen- 
uine faith. 

Now, having attained the necessary qnalifica- 
tions, decide to have confidence in yourself and 
make up your mind to mean business, then set the 
time of sitting, which should be kept religiously. 

I will now assume that you are ready to com- 
mence, hut before you start make up your mind 
that, what others have done you can and will do, 
and that if you fail the fault is your own. You 
must help yourself. Nobody can do for you what 
you must do for yourself. 

The Black Mieeoe oe Ceystal. 

Take a comfortable chair and sit facing the 
North, sit at least three feet from the Crystal; if 
using the Black Mirror hold it at arm's length 
before you (full instructions for the making of this 
Mirror will be given you in a later lesson), but 
whatever you do, do not permit another to handle 
or touch your ball or glass, and do not set it upon 
a stand during your setting. Set it upon a cushion 
of black velvet — let this rest on the table. 

When not using the Crystal learn to "Think 
without watching," that is to say, learn to with- 
draw your attention from things around you and 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 57 

center it inwardly. It then you will be thinking, 
but not watching things around you in the material 
world. 

Try to take your exercise the same hour daily 
and sit for at least fifteen minutes, increasing it 
to half an hour, as you feel able, but as soon as 
your eyes grow tired stop and rest them. 

Fix your eyes upon the glass, but without effort, 
just watch it naturally, and without taking them 
away at all fix your mind upon the glass. 

** Watch quietly without thinking.'* 

Can you understand what I mean by that — ^I 
want you to make your mind quite blank, ready 
to receive the pictures and impressions that will 
come to you from the mirror, simply ivatch and 
breathe — breathe and ivatch — ^have belief and faith 
and get as quiet as possible. 

Now, after a time, I do not say at the first sit- 
ting, you will see scenes or faces form in the glass, 
sometimes a cloud forms all over it and soft milky 
clouds float around it, and after these clear off 
faces, symbols and scenes appear clearly in the 
glass. But more often you will see by your astral 
or spirit sight a face or some scene, now dim, now 
bright, then this will fade away and other faces 
appear, or perhaps symbols, figures or even let- 
ters. So as far as this goes, of course, the Seer 
can work by himself, but when it comes to further 



68 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

development and the interpretation of symbols, 
the question of seeing without any means of con- 
centration, such as the Crystal, then you have 
need of further instruction. 

Spirit Sight. 

The phase of Astral or Spirit Sight, just cited 
above, is easily produced and should be arrived at 
after a week or so of practice, if the conditions 
are fulfilled and you have had absolute confidence 
and faith in yourself. You must not forget the 
necessity of mental purity, for a soul which is 
impregnated with love for humanity, and free 
from jealousy, hatred and evil of any kind is 
necessary if you want good results in any business. 

It is well to make notes of the symbols, faces 
and scenes which appear in the Crystal and to 
keep them for further reference, for you must 
learn to interpretate them. 

BIr. C. W. Leadbeater, in his volume, ''The 
Other Side of Death,'' says: 

Clairvoyance in Spiritualism. 

"Many of the phenomena commonly displayed 
at a spiritualistic gathering are simply the mani- 
festation of the ordinary powers and faculties 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 59 

natural to the astral plane, such as are possessed 
by every dead man. " "I have already explained 
in my little work on Clairvoyance what these 
powers are, and any one who will take the trouble 
to read that will see how clearly the possession of 
such sense accounts for the faculty so often ex- 
hibited by the dead of reading a closed book or 
a sealed letter, or describing the contents of a 
locked box." '^I have had repeated evidence 
through many different mediums of the posses- 
sion of this power; sometimes the knowledge ob- 
tained by its means was given out through the 
medium's body in trance-speaking, and at other 
times it was expressed directly by the dead man, 
either in his own voice or by slate-writing. ' ' 

^' These astral faculties sometimes include a cer- 
tain amount of provision, though this is possessed 
in very varying degrees ; and they also frequently 
give the power of psychometry and of looking 
back to some extent into events of the past." 
*'The way in which this is sometimes done is 
shown in the following story, given to us by Dr. 
Lee, in his Glimpses of the Supernatural, vol. ii, 
p. 146." 

The Missing Papers. 

"A commercial firm at Bolton, in Lancashire, 
had found that a considerable sum of money which 



60 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

had been sent to their bank by a confidential clerk 
had not been placed to their credit. " ^' The clerk 
remembered the fact of taking the money, though 
not the particulars, but at the bank nothing was 
known of it. The clerk, feeling that he was liable 
to suspicion in the matter, and anxious to eluci- 
date it, sought the help of a spirit-medium. The 
medium promised to do her best. Having heard 
the story, she presently passed into a kind of 
trance. Shortly after, she said: 'I see you go to 
the bank — I see you go to such and such a part of 
the bank — I see you hand some papers to a clerk — 
I see him put them in such and such a place under 
some other papers — and I see them there now.' " 
"The clerk went to the bank, directed the 
cashier where to look for the money, and it was 
found; the cashier afterwards remembering that 
in the hurry of business he had there deposited 
it. A relation of mine saw this story in a news- 
paper at the time, and wrote to the firm in ques- 
tion, the name of which was given, asking whether 
the facts were as stated. He was told in reply 
that they were. The gentleman who was applied 
to, having corrected one or two unimportant de- 
tails in the above narration, wrote on November 
9, 1874: 'Your account is a correct one. I have 
the answer of the firm to my enquiry at home 
now.' " 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 61 

"The description given does not make it abso- 
lutely clear whether this was a case of clairvoy- 
ance on the part of the medium, or of the use of 
ordinary faculty by a dead man; but since the 
medium passed into a trance-condition the latter 
supposition seems the more probable. The dead 
man could easily gather from the clerk's mind 
the earlier part of his story, and thus put himself 
en rapport with the scene ; and then by following 
it to its close he was able to supply the informa- 
tion required. Here is the authenticated record 
of another good example of such a case, in which 
the power of thought-reading is much more promi- 
nently exhibited, since all the questions were men- 
tal. It is extracted from the Report on Spiritual- 
ism, published by Longman, London, in 1871, and 
is to be found in the Examination of the Master 
of Lindsay, p. 215. 

A Lost Will. 

*'A friend of mine was very anxious to find the 
will of his grandmother, who had been dead forty 
years, but could not even find the certificate of 
her death. I went with him to the Marshalls, and 
we had a seance ; we sat at a table, and soon the 
raps came; my friend then asked his questions 
mentally; he went over the alphabet himself, or 



62 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

sometimes I did so, not knowing the question. 
We were told (that) the will had been drawn by a 
man named William Walter, who lived at White- 
chapel ; the name of the street and the number of 
the house were given. We went to Whitechapel, 
found the man, and subsequently, through his aid, 
obtained a copy of the draft; he was quite un- 
known to us, and had not always lived in that 
locality, for he had once seen better days. The 
medium could not possibly have known anything 
about the matter, and even if she had, her knowl- 
edge would have been of no avail, as all the ques- 
tions were mental ones." 

Clairvoyant ^^ Readings.^' 

This power of clairvoyance is also frequently 
displayed in a minor way at the weekly meetings 
of which I have spoken. After the trance address 
is over, the medium usually expresses her readi- 
ness to give descriptions, or "readings," as they 
are often called, of the surroundings of various 
members of the audience. AVhere the circle is a 
small one, something will be said to each of its 
members in turn; if there be a large number gath- 
ered together, individuals will be selected and 
called up for special attention. 

I have heard striking fragments of private 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 63 

family history brought out in this way — cases 
which bore every mark of genuineness ; but in the 
majority of such meetings as I have attended the 
descriptions were exceedingly vague, and had a 
rather suspicious adaptability about them. The 
conversation would usually run somewhat along 
these lines : 

Medium (supposed to be entranced, but speak- 
ing with exactly her normal contempt for aspirates 
and grammatical rules). *' There's an old gent 
with white 'air a-standin' be'ind that lady in the 
corner. ' ' 

Enthusiastic and Credulous Sitter. *'Lor! that 
must be my father!" 

Medium. "Yes; he smiles, he nods his 'ed, 
he's so pleased that you know him. I can see 
his white beard regularly shaking, he's so glad." 

Sitter. ' ' Ain 't it wonderful ! But father didn 't 
have no beard before he passed over; p'raps he's 
grown one since, or p'raps it's my uncle Jim; he 
used to have a beard." 

Medium. "Ah! yes, that's who it is; he nods 
his 'ed again, and smiles ; he wants to tell you 'ow 
'appy he is. ' ' 

Sitter. "Well, now ! just to think of poor uncle 
Jim coming like this ! Why, it 's more than thirty 
year ago he was drowned at sea, when I was quite 



64 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

a girl ; 'an 'some young chap he was, too ! not more 
than five-and-twenty, and to be drownded like 
that!" 

Medium. * * Um ! yes — yes — ah ! I see him more 
clearly now — yes, you're right. It's not a white 
beard — it's the white undershirt what sailors 
wears — that 's what it is ! " 

Chorus. "How lovely! how wonderful! Ain't 
it beautiful to think they can come back like this ! ' ' 

I have heard just about that sort of conversation 
a score of times ; and it is naturally not calculated 
to produce a very robust faith in that particular 
medium. Yet perhaps through the very same 
illiterate woman there would come on another oc- 
casion some message about a matter of which she 
could by no possibility have known anything — a 
message which she could never have evolved from 
her sordid consciousness by any amount of clumsy 
guess-work. 

A Peivate Test. 

I remember on one such occasion applying a 
little private test of my own to a medium in a 
poor London suburb. She was a coarse-looking 
woman, whom I had never seen before, but she 
seemed earnest enough, though far from cultured. 
She went on from one member of the circle to an- 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 65 

other, monotonously describing behind each of 
them spirits with flowing robes and smiling faces ; 
she varied the story a little in my own case by 
giving me "a dark-looking foreign gentleman, 
with something white ronnd his head, ' ' which may 
very possibly have been true enongh, or may have 
been merely a coincidence. 

It occurred to me to try whether she could see a 
thought-form, so as a change from all these rev- 
erend white-haired spirits with flowing robes, I 
set myself to project as strong a mental image as 
I could construct of two chubby boys in Etons, 
standing behind the chair of the member of the 
circle who was next in order for examination. 
Sure enough, when that person's turn came, the 
medium (or the man speaking through her, if there 
was one) described my imaginary boys with toler- 
able accuracy, and represented them as sons of 
the lady behind whom they stood. The latter de- 
nied this, explaining that her sons were grown 
men, and the medium then suggested grandchil- 
dren, which was also repudiated, so the mystery 
remained unsolved. But from the incident I de- 
duced two conclusions : First, that either the me- 
dium was genuinely clairvoyant or there really 
was a dead person speaking through her ; and sec- 
ondly, that whoever was concerned had not yet 
sufficient discernment to distinguish a thought- 



ee MYSTIO TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

form materialized on the astral plane from a living 
astral body." — The Other Side of Death, by C. W. 
Leadbeater. 

So far I have only been dealing with Spirit Sight 
for yourself, and for development only, but when 
the more important question arises of seeing for 
other people, much the same conditions are re- 
quired; let the person who seeks a seance or 
reading sit in front of you and take off his glove, 
touch his hand quite lightly with one of your 
fingers to establish communication between you, 
or what is called ^^ra'pport," then you must look 
earnestly and quietly into the glass and tell ex- 
actly what you see or what is given to you; re- 
member that on no account must you reason ; to do 
so is fatal ; simply make your mind blank and say 
what comes into your head; do not think that it 
may be improbable and so refrain from voicing it, 
the things which come to you in this way will be 
correct; you do not know why, you cannot know 
what reference they will have to the affairs of 
your client but will find them true. 

Unless the Crystal Vision is very true and clear 
you will find that many things half formed in the 
glass will come to your mind as quite vivid pic- 
tures, since it is not the virtue of the glass but 
your own Spirit Sight which can read the Aura 
or see in the Astral light of those who consult you. 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 67 

EocK Ckystal or Hindu Beryl. 

The real Eock Crystal or Beryl is very expen- 
sive, quite a small one costing $50, but you can get 
an excellent Crystal or imported sphere for $3 
that will do equally as well, or the Magic or Black 
Mirror, the materials for making which will cost 
you about $3.50. 

Aura or Astral Light. 

To return to the Aura or Astral Light, this is a 
very important consideration, since as soon as you 
are able to perceive this about a person you can 
read meanings in the play of its color as it sur- 
rounds every man, woman and child. 

The Aura or Astral Light is a mist-like emana- 
tion which arises from every animate and inani- 
mate object. 

The Aura or Astral Light thrown off by people 
is composed of tiny atoms of so minute a character 
it is entirely imperceptible to the naked eye, but is 
clearly visible to those who have succeeded in so 
controlling themselves that they can obtain the 
state of introspection and see spiritually at will. 
This is referred to often in Europe and America 
as Clairvoyant Sight. The Aura is of the nature 
of a cloud which entirely surrounds the person sit- 
ting, and it is through reading this either know- 



68 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

ingly or unconsciously that the Clairvoyant is able 
to deduce the events in the lives of those around 
him. 

The ability to see this Aijra or read in the 
Astral Light, is only acquired after long practice 
and psychic training, which means that you have 
to sit regularly, to eat temperately, to have com- 
plete control over temper, your feelings, true faith 
and belief in yourself to get results; and also it 
means sexual purity and continence, yet without 
doubt the results more than repay one for the 
effort required to obtain them. 

It is best when the clairvoyant faculty or your 
Spirit Sight has been developed to the necessary 
degree, to sit looking quietly at the subject, with- 
out winking the eyes at all, make the mind blank 
and gaze very steadily for at least ten or fifteen 
minutes in silence ; at the end of that time you will 
perceive by your Spirit Sight the health Auba or 
Astral Light, which is a kind of bluish grey mist 
arising from the body; when you see this you 
are getting on and other developments may be 
expected to follow. 

Mr. C. W. Leadheater in speaking of Astral 
Thought-forms in his work, ''The Other Side of 
Death," says: 

*' Every thought of the man which is connected 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 69 

with self or tainted by any desire for his own gain 
instantly draws round itself matter of the astral 
plane as well as of the mental, and remains hover- 
ing round him. If any man yields frequently to 
thoughts of this type, he makes for himself exceed- 
ingly strong thought-forms, which are constantly 
fed and rendered more and more powerful by each 
recurrence of the feeling. During physical life 
these are invisible to him, although their influence 
is constantly reacting upon him and tending to 
reproduce in him the thought which created them ; 
but after death they become visible and haunting 
forms from which he cannot escape, because their 
attraction to him is of the very essence of their 
nature. In many cases it is in this way that men 
first come to realize how ugly and hateful some of 
their thoughts may be, and so they learn to exer- 
cise more rigid supervision over them. 

A man may sometimes find himself surrounded 
by thoughts which are not his own, for if any one 
else is directing towards him any strong feeling, 
whether it be of love or hate, of joy or sorrow, 
he will certainly find the thought-form which ex- 
presses it hovering about him, and will feel within 
himself the effect of its vibrations. It is in this 
way that the strong thoughts of love and the 
friendly wish which should accompany a remem- 
brance of the dead produce so beneficent a result 



70 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

Tipon them. We may, if we will, surround the 
friend whom we have '4ost" with a rosy cloud of 
affectionate thought, through which he will see 
everything couleur de rose, so that it may be a 
veritable shield for him from unpleasant in- 
fluences; and its own action upon him will also 
tend to stir up within him sympathetic feelings 
of affection, and to calm all disturbances. A ref- 
erence to Plate ix in Man Visible and Invisible 
will show how the thought-form of affection is 
shaped within the astral body of the thinker, and 
in the illustrations to Mrs. Besant's article upon 
"Thought Forms" in Lucifer, September, 1896, 
the thought-form will be seen rushing on its way 
towards its object. 

Other thought-forms are less pleasant than this ; 
and sometimes it is no small part of the retribu- 
tion which overtakes the man who during earth- 
life has treated others harshly to see after death 
the thought-forms of those whom he has injured, 
and to feel the vibrations which radiate from 
them. On the contrary, one who has been widely 
loved is very much helped and uplifted by the cur- 
rents of thought directed to him. A very notice- 
able example of this was seen in the case of Her 
Majesty the late Queen Victoria, whose rapid 
passage into the heaven-world was undoubtedly 
due to the millions of loving and grateful thought- 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 71 

forms which were sent to her, as well as to her 
own inherent goodness. 

Unfortunately there are sometimes men who 
deserve the distrust or anger of many, instead of 
their love. It has sometimes fared hardly after 
death with those whose financial operations have 
heartlessly ruined hundreds of people, for the 
forms which surround them in menacing^ crowds 
have often caused them the utmost horror and 
remorse. The thought-form has no intelligence 
of its own, and has only a temporary existence, 
the length of which is determined by the energy 
put into the thought in the first place. Never- 
theless it is impossible for the man towards whom 
it is directed to escape from it, since the very 
cause of its existence, the essence of its being, is 
its attraction towards him. He may, if he knows 
how to do so, surround himself with a shell which 
will prevent its vibrations from affecting him ; he 
may (again if he knows how to do it) break up 
and dissipate that thought-form by an effort of 
his will; but while it exists it will cling to him 
with the tenacity of a limpet. Usually thought- 
forms coming from different persons retain their 
individuality and have each of them a distinct, 
impress of the mind from which they came; but 
under certain circumstances it has been found 
that it is possible for the thought-forms gener- 



72 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

ated by many persons to coalese into one gigantic 
phantom, and if this be of an unpleasant nature, 
the result may be very terrible. — The Other Side 
of Death, hy Leadbeater. 

The meaning attached to Thought-forms and 
Human Aura will be given in a later lesson 

Clairvoyant or Astral Sight. 

Now so far as the different kinds of Clairvoy- 
ance or degrees of Astral or Spirit Sight are con- 
cerned, I shall place normal Spirit Sight first. 

The only natural and normal Spirit Sight or 
vision is obtained by so controlling yourself that 
you can by your own faith and ivill bring about 
the interior focalisation of the mind at will. 

Clairvoyance in a trance condition, when the 
subject is at the mercy of chance spirits, is not 
always reliable and seldom as clear as the normal 
vision, which is the result of self-induction. 

Clairvoyance under Hypnotism, which is prac- 
ticed to a great extent by the Hindus, though 
capable of great development, is open to the same 
charge as the Neophyte, who, not having full and 
clear Spirit Sight himself, does not ever know that 
spirits may assume command of his subject's 
mentality, what personalities they assume or what 
mischief they may bring about, so that if you 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 73 

really want the best be content with the methods 
given here, which you are receiving for only a few 
dollars, until such time as you may be able to 
receive private and personal instruction from a 
master. 

Remember that the human Aura or Astral 
Thought Forms imprint themselves and their his- 
tory on everything they come in contact with, and 
by these means you can develop the power of 
Psychometry, which is so closely allied to Clair- 
voyance that it is difficult to say which is which 
when a * ' sensitive ' ' begins to work. 

Given a letetr or an article belonging to any 
person you can in this manner learn the history 
by simply holding the same lightly in your hand 
or against the right side of your head, never to the 
forehead, as some surface writers advise. 

If you will follow the instruction I have given 
you will make a splendid Seer, and I say this to 
all, who will have true faith and absolute belief 
in themselves, since the gift of the Spirit Sight 
is free for all who fulfil the conditions and believe. 
Does not Jesus, the Greatest Master and Clair- 
voyant that ever lived, say: ^^ According to your 
belief he it unto you." To you, then, who believe, 
and listen for the inner voice of revelation, and 
the oncoming of the Spirit or Astral Sight, all 
nature and all the hidden doings and secrets of 



74 MYSTIO TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

mankind will be as an open book ; nothing will be 
hidden from you when you choose to use your 
inner or Astral Sight. 

Peactice. 

Sit daily for half an hour in perfect silence, and 
at a time most suitable to yourself, and gaze into 
the Crystal, glass bowl or mirror ; record all that 
passes; you must not reject things on the plea 
that they may be fancy; very little is fancy that 
comes to you in this way, but is mostly real, even 
if it appears shadowy. Do not forget the breath- 
ing exercises, as these have a very great potent 
effect upon the inner sight and will help you 
greatly. Bo not forget, friend, tvhether you he a 
brother or sister in this luork, to remember every- 
thing I have said to you in the forepart of this 
book under the heading ^^impoetant woeds.^^ / 
suppose you understand that a hair-brained fool 
nor a lazy, brainless individual cannot get residts. 
If you tvant residts, get doivn to good hard work; 
keep at it all the time and don't tvaste your time 
trying to find fault or complaining about your not 
being able to do anything, for if you fail it is your 
own fault. 

Apparitions are referred to as follows by C. W. 
Leadbeater in his book, ''The Other Side of 
Death": 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 75 

* ' There was a time not many years ago when it 
was fashionable to ridicule anyone who had had 
the good fortune to meet face to face an inhabit- 
ant of the world usually unseen, and though such 
experiences were presumably no less common then 
than now, those who encountered them naturally 
kept them to themselves if they valued their repu- 
tation as sane members of a materialistic society." 
Within the last few years, however, a salutary 
change has come over public opinion in this re- 
spect. To sneer at psychic phenomena is now 
recognized as showing not intellectual vigour but 
ignorance and assumption. When there exists a 
Society for Psychical Research which numbers 
among its members well-known scientists like Sir 
William Crookes and Sir Oliver Lodge, and public 
men like Mr. Arthur Balfour, and when that so- 
ciety issues huge volumes of learned reports upon 
such phenomena and considers them worthy of 
careful and prolonged investigation, it is no longer 
safe for anyone who wishes to be in the fashion 
to raise the silly and antiquated parrot-cry of 
* superstition. ' 

''Impartial enquiry into the subject of appari- 
tions shows us that from all countries of the world 
there come well-attested accounts of the occasional 
return of the dead. Such visitors have rarely 
given much information with regard to the world 



76 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

from which they came, though a good deal may be 
inferred from collation and comparison of the 
various stories. But at any rate the mere fact 
that man does survive the process called death is 
proved for any fair-minded investigator by these 
accounts alone." 

As Mr. W. T. Stead remarks in the introduction 
to his ''Real Ghost Stories": 

''Of all the vulgar superstitions of the half- 
educated, none dies harder than the absurd delu- 
sion that there are no such things as ghosts. All 
the experts, whether spiritual, poetical, or scien- 
tific, and all the others, non-experts, who have 
bestowed any serious attention upon the subject, 
know that they do exist. There is endless variety 
of opinion as to what a ghost may be. But as to 
the fact of its existence, whatever it may be, there 
is no longer any serious dispute among honest 
investigators. If anyone questions this, let him 
investigate for himself. In six months, possibly 
in six weeks, or even in six days, he will fiind it 
impossible to deny the reality of the existence of 
the phenomena popularly entitled ghostly. He 
may have a hundred ingenious explanations of the 
origin and nature of the ghost, but as to the exist- 
ence of the entity itself there will no longer be 
any doubt. ' ' 



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Spiritualism. 

"Another way in which many travelers have 
returned is through the use of the means provided 
by modern spiritualism. I am well aware that 
there has been much fraud and deception in this 
connection, but I also know from personal investi- 
gation that there is truth to be found along these 
lines by the patient and indefatigable seeker. 
Unless specially trained in the higher clairvoy- 
ance, however, the enquirer is very much at the 
mercy of various masquerading entities, and this 
line of research is surrounded by pitfalls into 
which the unwary may very readily stumble. I 
hope later to devote some pages to a careful analy- 
sis of some of the phenomena of spiritualism, but 
for the present my point is that here is another 
source from which information as to the life after 
death is to be obtained by those who are willing 
to take some trouble in looking for it." 

"It may be said that any value which spiritual- 
istic testimony may possess is largely discounted 
by the fact that it is not always consistent — that 
the accounts given by spirits at various times and 
places have differed considerably. This is quite 
true, and I am by no means suggesting that all 
spirit evidence is equally worthy of acceptance. 
But I do say that in very many cases the com- 



78 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

nmnicating entity is telling the truth as far as he 
knows it, and that the difference between the state- 
ments made by two such entities is often due to the 
fact that both of their views are partial, and not to 
any wilful deception practised by either of them. ' ' 
"For example, most of those who speak through 
mediums in England and America describe the 
after-death state as a progressive life in a 'sum- 
merland,' which is in fact only a glorified repro- 
duction of the earth, and so far as they give any 
religious teaching it is always a kind of Chris- 
tianity-and-water — certainly wider and less rigid 
than the orthodox idea, though usually very much 
vaguer, but still distinctly Christian in tone. One 
gets so used to this that I remember it was quite 
a surprise to me when I attended my first seance 
in Ceylon to find that all the communicating enti- 
ties were Buddhists, and that beyond the grave 
they also had found their religious preconceptions 
confirmed, exactly as had the members of various 
Christian sects over here. But differences such 
as these become easily comprehensible when we 
understand that after death, as before, like 
attracts like, and that people of the same race, 
religion or caste will keep together and remain 
apart from the rest of humanity in that world as 
in this." — The Other Side of Death, Leadheater. 



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CHAPTER V. 

AsTBAL Clouds of Human Auea. 

The meaning of Astral Light and the color of 
the tints of the Aura which surround all humans 
as well as animals is a subject that has long en- 
gaged the attention of intelligent investigators, 
outside of India, the world over, but when my 
Chela (disciple) in this work observes through 
the use of his or her Spirit Sight the Aura around 
any person you must always first be quite sure 
that it is clear. 

The attempt to see the Astral cloud or Auea, 
which envelopes every person, is one that a great 
many proselytes find hard to grasp; there is a 
royal road to it, however, that will give results; 
it is the road of true FAITH. 

To Give a Reading. 

When about to give a reading take the hand of 
your client and hold it gently, place no pressure 
except upon the hall of the tliumh, then close the 
eyes and draw a long abdominal deep breath (in- 
flating the lungs to their utmost capacity), hold it 



80 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEBS. 

and wait; this repeat five or six times, keeping 
the eyes still closed, and great waves of color will 
pass before yon in sweeping, rolling lengths, which 
will pass from one side to the other. This method 
is followed by the Hindus, sitting or lying, when 
they want certain information about you. 

When the Astral Auras become clear and vivid 
you will place the full meaning given upon them; 
when cloudy then will the reading be averse. 

The same can be done with the Crystal, but the 
Aura will not always be so vivid, and for the 
ability to see the Auka I much prefer the method 
given here, as names and faces will float in the 
clouds of Astral Light. 

Astral Auras and Their Colors. 

The different Auras shown in the Astral Light 
are ten in number and they have a fixed meaning, 
but they are seldom seen pure as in the prism. 
The meanings which follow are of great use to the 
Seer, no matter whether the colors appear in the 
Crystal or with the high phases of Spirit Sight. 

Astral Colors and Their Meaning. 

Orange, material success, very good. 

Green, joy, pleasure, light hearted. 

Yellow, a surprise — if cloudy, unpleasant news. 

Blue, intellectual, a good brain. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 81 

Violet, spirituality, Spirit Sight possible. 
White, is of good omen. 
Black, trouble, danger, a bad omen. 
Crimson, love, sympathy, and good will. 
Red, passion, very sensual. 

So much for the general readings ; now for the 
enlarged. 

If the Astral colors should happen to come 
within the mental vision with any planet, zodiacal 
sign, letters, numbers, etc.; attached it will alter 
the meaning, but at first be content to write down 
the nature of any vision carefully and interpret at 
leisure. 

Astral Axjeas in the Cbystal. 

Always get at this before you attempt further 
development of your Spirit or Astral Sight. 
Bear in mind also that many of these conditions 
change and alter from day to day even — unless 
the Astral Aura is very dense and dark, or all 
very light and pure, when the uniform condition 
will indicate a certain ''set condition" in the 
mental and spiritual conditions. 

You will always find that the fine and pure 
AuEAS rise; they will be highest in the Crystal, 
above the head in the x\uea. The denser colors 
always sink, the purer rise. 

You will see from this how to read the colors, 



82 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

but you should always balance one against the 
other ; never jump to a conclusion, and never tell 
people too much. They are not intended to lift 
the veil altogether. 

When the Astral Light or Auras appear in the 
Crystal you can give them the same meanings as 
when they appear around the head of an individ- 
ual, but remember that often faces, figures, sym- 
bols, etc., come into the Crystal surrounded by 
waves or clouds of Aura, when the colors will 
indicate the condition the person whose face 
appears is in, and you must give your reading 
accordingly. 

The Meaning of the Auras. 

Pale Violet signifies love, passion, suffering 
and great endurance. 

Green shows the person will attain victory and 
success, a bright and cheerful character, full of 
life, of good purpose, and ever ready to see the 
hopeful side of things. 

A dark sickly green signifies a deceitful, evasive 
nature, a double-tongued person whom you should 
place no confidence or import in; shun them 
whatever you do, for if you don't you will regret it. 

Brown signifies greed, avarice, disappointment 
and dishonor. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 83 

These colors will appear clearly to you, if your 
inner sight is developed in the Auka or Astral 
Cloud which envelopes mankind and all living 
bodies ; they will also be observed in your Crystal 
or Magic Mirror. 

You will seldom see them alone ; they will nearly 
always appear with symbols, letters or some indi- 
cation of form which will give you the real Key to 
their meaning. 

These different colors of the Auras indicate 
clearly the mental and spiritual condition, as well 
as the traits and characteristics of the people who 
consult or whom you are diagnosing. 

You can tell at once what condition your client 
is in, as your Spirit Sight grows and you learn 
to interpret the Astral Colors. 

The gross, material and mentally unorganized 
people will be surrounded with darker shades of 
red, of black, of brown, of blue, of green; mean 
and treacherous people will have clouds of brown 
around them, those who are deceitful and jealous 
will have clouds of mustardy yellow or dirty green, 
whilst the hypocrite will be surrounded with a 
browny blue mixture. The bad tempered, irritable 
person will have much scarlet ; the sensual persons 
clouds of red. It is thus the hypocrite and the 
deceitful will be made known to you alone. 

Now in this way you strike the very key-note of 



84 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS, 

the person you are dealing with and find at once 
the true reason for their actions, their troubles, 
and often the symbols and visions which relate to 
futurity appearing in the Aura or Crystal. 

White is a token or emblem of innocence, faith 
and purity. This is but seldom seen in the Aura 
of ordinary people, but comes to those of special 
spiritual training who have learned the great les- 
sons, ^^Control Thyself/' "Know Thyself." 

Eed, of a pale shade or tint signifies love, cre- 
ative power, a character full of warmth, inventive 
genius, vitality and true worth. 

ScAELET signifies lust, passion and a low, degen- 
erated, sensual nature. 

Blood Eed means war, hatred, punishment. 

ScAKLET AND Black combiucd in the Astral Aura 
indicates a diabolical outburst of passion, possibly 
bloodshed and poor control over the will or reason- 
ing powers. 

Black prominent in the Aura will show mate- 
riality, affliction, gross earthly thoughts and a 
mercenary nature. 

Grey means frequent mourning, trouble and 
continued sorrow and disappointment. 

Pale Blue shows an intellectual nature, one 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 85 

who is in an advanced state of development and 
understanding of self -hood. 

Deepee Shade of Blue shows religious fervour, 
but if there is a mixture of brown or grey with it 
there^ will be a good deal of selfishness and pious 
deceit with the religion, and a good deal of narrow 
bigotry in the nature of those who show this 
Astral Color. 

Yellow of a muddy, mustardy color will belong 
to a person envious, jealous, whose disposition is 
unsatisfactory in his dealings, inconstant, often 
deceitful and a liar. 

Clear Pure Yellow indicates the highest order 
of intellectuality, intuitional and generally spirit- 
ually disposed. 

Orange indicates a somewhat lower order of in- 
tellectuality and a good deal of success in com- 
mercial life. 

A Deep Violet Blue a very high state of spirit- 
uality — it is seldom seen, however, I regret to 
state. 

A Clear Bright Blue will indicate a condition 
of religious fervour, and where there is much of 
this it might quite possibly be unbearable to those 
surrounding the person, who will wait neither time 



86 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

nor opportunity to thrust his pious opinions upon 
them. 

Where considerable pale blue Astral Aura is in 
evidence you get the man who is coldly intellectual, 
often scientific, generally piety and free from lust 
of passion. These people have a refining influence 
on others and frequent places of art and culture, 
and refined music. 

Dakk Yellow Aueas are always best avoided, 
people with these are always very jealous, envious, 
unscrupulous and deceitful. Bad for business 
dealings, and bad associates. 

The Clear Shades or Yellow indicate a very 
high order of intellectuality, and these people will 
be out of the common run, not at all frequent 
amongst your clients. 

So with the Violet Blue Auea, the man or 
woman who carries this has intense aspiration for 
spiritual things, will never mix up with anything 
degrading, gross or mean. Will be trustworthy, 
truthful and genuine. Good people to associate 
and do business with. 

The Influence of the Asteal Colors on 
Othees. 

The influence upon others of the varying shades 
of the Red Asteal Auea thrown off by certain 
people is widely different. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 87 

From the pure affection and tender love of the 
EosE (pale) Aura, a condition which creates hap- 
piness wherever it falls, to the gross sensual love 
of the Scarlet Aura is a wide difference and the 
effect upon others may be easily gauged. 

The person with much Scarlet will bring an 
element of discontent and dissension wherever he 
goes. His lot will fall amongst sensual, envious 
and material people, he will frequent places where 
similar conditions exist in Music Halls, Public 
Houses, Brothels, etc., according to his station in 
life; so will these places be of high or low aspect, 
but all bear the taint of vice and can be judged 
accordingly. Blood Eed Auras envelops and at- 
tends soldiers in active conflict, murderers, butch- 
ers, all those whose thoughts run red with war, 
but with certain symbols which I will explain to 
you in a later lesson, it means swift and terrible 
punishment. 

People with much grey, ash-grey or blue-grey 
Aura, will bring a depressing influence to bear 
upon their relatives, friends, neighbours and all 
their affairs. They are always afraid, morbid, and 
worrying over something, always in grief or sor- 
row. When the ash-grey Aura swiftly descends, 
or sweeps out all other colors, it indicates mourn- 
ing or bereavement. You have, for instance, a 
client whose Astral Aura gives you shades of Red, 



88 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

Blue and Paler Violet^ with perhaps some muddy- 
yellow or green combined in it — here yon have pas- 
sion, a certain degree of intellectuality, a desire 
for spiritual things, but an underlying strata of 
deceit, selfishness and jealousy which will keep the 
subject from any great advancement — a weak 
character clearly. 

Warn him of this if you feel it wise. 

Now there comes into your vision another face 
and surrounding it you get clouds of red and black, 
of brown even and flashes of scarlet. 

You will see at once that it is necessary to warn 
your client of this man, who can be no friend to 
him and only a bad influence. 

The Black Auea. 

The influence of the Black Aura is lowering and 
brings a depressing influence upon other people, 
and affects all those who may come in contact 
with it. 

Its influence upon the person who creates it is 
very bad, it brings his life into chaos, it keeps him 
on a low level, it creates gross imperfect conditions 
which are difficult to overcome. Such people are 
always in trouble, too, and seem to attract evil and 
disaster. 



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CHAPTEE VI. 
Symbols and Planets. 

In your last lesson I stated that in addition to 
the actual vision of color perceived by your Spirit 
Sight, there are times when the planets would be 
seen in connection with these colors. 

It must be borne in mind that to be a successful 
Seer and Medium the world of symbols must be 
fully grasped, and that for one person who can 
see things as they actually occur in the Astral 
Light there are twenty who see the same thing in 
symbols. The exact vision is rare, and even when 
it is frequent, as in the instance I shall give you 
later, when the help of what are called elementals 
are called forth — a practice I do not for one in- 
stant advocate, and one which is seldom relied 
upon — there are times when the revelation is not 
of a nature to help or elevate. 

White and Black Magic. 

In the symbolic world, on the contrary, there is 
very little of this, but the earnest student must 



90 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

learn to distinguish between tvhite and hlach 
magic, and to remember that the subject of Spirit 
and Astral Sight and Occult Powers covers a very 
wide area, and can be put to all sorts of uses, good, 
bad and indifferent. 

As in all else the planets must play an impor- 
tant part in our being, and when the symbols 
appear in the vision, they carry with them a dis- 
tinct and very important meaning. 

Signs of the Zodiac. 

The signs of the Zodiac are divided into four 
groups, and these groups are known as triplicities, 
earth, air, fire and water. 

And the atmospheric spirits, those nameless 
beings which throng the very air we breathe, called 
''elementals," are also divided into four groups 
governing the same elements. 

Clairvoyants, Mediums and sensatives are in 
particular oj^en to the inroads of these mischiev- 
ous influences, and must be warned against them. 

The Earthy Triplicity is Taurus, Virgo and 
Capricorn. 

The Airy Triplicity is Aries, Leo and Saggit- 
tarius. *W^ 

The Water Triplicity is Cancer, Scorpio and 
Pisces. 

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or you find these colors predominating in their 
home, dress, etc., then you can place them under 
the Triplicities to which they belong, and you can 
tell them what elementals they must avoid. 

Those people who belong mostly to the airy 
triplicity will have a love for blue, red and black. 
The fiery triplicity gives off white, red, yellow and 
green. The watery gives brown, green, white ; and 
the earthy gives black, brown, white and yellow. 

I do not say that these colors will be found to 
be by themselves, but they will surely predominate. 

It is taught by Hindu Seers that where the four 
elementals, earth, air, fire and water, prevail there 
will be found certain corresponding spheres gov- 
erned by spirits of the planets and these ele- 
mentals bear names according to the substance 
over which they rule, and the elementals which 
they obey their dictates. 

In the Sanscrit they are known as follows : 

Thus Akasha is inspired by the good Indra and 
signifies the mother ether. Fire by Agni — air by 
Pavano — water by Varuna — earth by KsJiiti. 

It is taught that under each of these exalted in- 
telligences there are seven orders, and under them 
yet again seven orders and so on ad infinitum 
through the cosmos into chaos. 

The ancient Initiated or Cabbalists divide the 
elementals thus: 



9^ MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

Fire, Salamanders. 

Air, Sylphs. 

Water, Undines. 

Earth, Gnomes. 

They simply swarm in the elemental they rep- 
resent, and they attend each individual according 
to their office, and strength in that individual's 
psychic, other than material, composition. 

A man or woman is spiritual or material, not so 
much according to their fleshy standard, as the 
standard of their soul. When these elementals 
are in a peaceable frame of mind they do very little 
harm, or indeed none, and often good. But when 
they are disturbed or in a malevolent frame of 
mind, they are like swiftly moving flames or atoms 
swishing through their elemental under immense 
dynamic pressure. 

These infuriated elementals when they come in 
contact with human beings work havoc with their 
victims, causing disease, disaster and all sorts of 
trouble, so that when I ask my pupils not to sit 
late at night gazing at their Crystals or a Black 
Mirror, I am really warning them against the 
undue influences likely to attack them in the form 
of malevolent elementals. 

These spirits of the sub-human kingdom are 
governed by natural law and also by human will, 
they can be controlled by those who are their 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 93 

superiors, yet under certain conditions they can 
work mischief and harm even amongst their 
superiors. 

These elementals have their corresponding 
forms in human passions, and these forms are 
called elementaries, they are the servants of the 
elementals often with or for them. 

Elementals, 

Earth, 

Air, 

Fire, 

Water, 

Elementaries. 

Desire. 

Power. 

Will. 

Passion or Love. 
Man at the outset is an ordinary elementary, 
a creature of will, power, passion and desire in 
varying degrees, and as an elementary is quite at 
the mercy of an elemental, and can be obsessed by 
such, so it behoves all who know and who would 
rise above the temptations of these pests to rise 
above the elementary plane, and seek the realm of 
the Adept or Master, who learns the lessons, 
^'Know Thyself"— ''Control Thyself." 

Now it frequently occurs that those who seek 
to lift the veil of the past or future, are anxious 



94 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

to communicate with some dear ones who have 
passed out of the body. To do this they either try 
crystal gazing or go to a spiritualistic medium, 
yet half the time the results are but the pranks 
and games on the part of the elementals which 
swarm in the atmosphere. Hence the Clairvoyant 
or Medium must not sit for development at a time 
when these spirits have most power, viz., at late 
hours in the evening and in the very early hours of 
the morning. The best time to sit for development 
is certainly from eight to nine o'clock in the eve- 
ning. Sit in a dark room and concentrate all your 
thought upon the person you want to see, at first 
you will obtain little result beyond clouds of color, 
and perhaps many varying forms, not the one you 
seek, all the room will seem to be full of light and 
people, then take full deep breaths as directed in 
the last chapter and at last the desired form will 
appear. 

The great thing is to avoid promiscuous influ- 
ences, and another thing is to sit alone if possible, 
and certainly not with more than one person in the 
room — remember that latv and ivill power are 
expressions of the universal spirit, and that will, 
laiv, and the perfect self-balance taught by the les- 
son "Control Thyself" all tend to establish a pos- 
itive mental attitude which is quite able to avoid 
the troubles threatened by elementals. When the 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 95 

Seer is in a weak and negative state of mind, they 
lay themselves open to be obsessed by elementals, 
and for this reason a trance Clairvoyant is often 
the victim of promiscuous control and misleading 
results- — and this also very often leads to insanity 
and death. 

I do not advocate trance Clairvoyance, it is dan- 
gerous and seldom reliable, but as these chapters 
would not be complete without a few words on 
the subject of self-lwpnotism I will proceed to 
describe what I have found to be the best method. 

Hindu Masters and Seers are able to induce the 
state of introspection with a slight effort of their 
will, but the neopyte will find this an impossibility 
until he learns to have faith. 

Let the pupil sit facing the East, in a chair of 
wood, with a comfortable footstool. Then fix the 
gaze steadily upon a Magic Mirror and draw thirty 
long deep breaths. After a short time the eyes 
will grow weary, close, and the Seer falls into a 
state of coma, or self-induced trance, and is then 
able to exercise the inner or Spiritual Sight. There 
must always be somebody in the room to take down 
all that is said, of course the person for whom 
you are in a trance will do very well, it is not nec- 
essary to have a third person. Give strict orders 
that no one is to arouse you, but make a suggestion 
to yourself as you enter the trance, that you will 



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awake after a certain length of time. The process 
I have described above is a genuine trance, but 
three-parts of the so-called trance mediums are 
not in a trance at all but merely induce a state of 
great excitement by deep breathing, etc., and in 
that state they are often less reliable than when in 
complete hypnosis. 

I can only repeat do not attempt trance 
mediumship unless you are an adept and absolute 
master of yourself, otherwise you will only lay 
yourself open to trouble. 



To revert again to the planetry symbols when 
they appear in the crystal, no matter what the 
colors attending them: 

Maes always means action, war, quarrels, a 
martial spirit. 

Venus means love, marriage. 

JupiTEE, success, often social position. 

Saturn, at times trouble, more often melan- 
choly and great troubles. 

The Sun means victory, joy, triumph. 

Mercury, financial matters, writing, literature, 
science, etc. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 97 

Now the next thing is to fit in the colors given 
in Chapter V. to the planet, thus Venus with 
black or grey means trouble in love affairs ; Venus 
with light red, happiness in love — marriage. 
Venus with very dark red means passion, lust, 
improper love affairs, and so on through the whole 
gaunt of color reading. These signs appear more 
frequently than anything else in the crystal, hence 
the importance attached to them. The Zodiacal 
signs have also their meanings, and these are of 
equal importance. Aries means always fighting, 
either against people or circumstances as the color 
clouds indicate. 

Taurus, an earthy sign, gives love of material 
pleasures, feasting, and is also indicative of strug- 
gles. 

Gemini indicates duality, often deception, nearly 
always science and discoveries, inventions. 

Cancer, tenacity ; so far as events are concerned, 
it is an immoral sign when coming with very much 
red, and also covers events happening in South 
Africa and the Cape. 

Leo is martial, but curiously enough indicates 
mother love, often birth, and nearly always a 
struggle for supremacy. 

Virgo indicates business matters, and also all 
Stock Exchange work. 

Libra, music, the fine arts, love, uncertainty. 



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Scorpio means passion, lust, red hot anger. 

Sagittarius, all things connected with horses, 
racing, animals, etc. 

Capricorn, business matters, but of a heavier 
nature than those indicated by Virgo, and also of 
material pleasures. 

Aquarius, matters of any nature to do with elec- 
trical engineering, the Occult and all things deal- 
ing with the hidden laws of the Universe, one of 
the most difficult signs to master and full of all 
sorts of contradictions. 

Pisces indicates sea journeys, travel, water 
fatalities and kindred matters according to the 
nature of the color clouds. And to each of these- 
signs according to the triplicity to which they 
belong may be attached the warning necessary 
against the elemental familiar to the sign. When 
attended by favorable colors the elementals will 
be friendly, thus Aries, Leo or Sagittarius at- 
tended with victorious colors means that the ele- 
mentals are friendly and that fire will help not 
hinder. And so with the others. The subject mat- 
ter of this chapter must be committed to memory. 



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CHAPTEEVIL 

How TO Make, Peepake and Use a Magic or Hindu 
Black Mirroe. 

The disciple who prefers to use a Magic Mirror 
to the Crystal can, of course, do so, and many get 
fine results, since the Mirror will be made with his 
own hands, magnetised with his own magnetism, 
and to most people will prove a much more val- 
uable medium for clear seeing than the ordinary 
Crystal, and moreover it is not so tiring to the 
eyes. However, using the Crystal occasionally is 
good for continuous development of Spirit Sight. 

The first requisites are the necessary materials 
for the Mirror, these can be obtained from places 
I will name, but are not obtainable from the or- 
dinary run of artists, colormen or chemists. 

"Write Messrs. de Laurence, Scott & Co., 1514 
Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111., U. S. A., for the 
glass which you must have to make the Magic 
Mirror. 

These glasses are imported by de Laurence, 
Scott & Co., and are full concave. They are called 
by de Laurence, Scott & Co. The Hindu Black 



100 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

Magics, as they know full well what they are used 
for. Price of one glass, prepaid, packed against 
breakage, $2.50. 

Next you must have a tube of bismuth and 
one camel hair brush, which they will also supply 
for 50 cents. Just send them $3.50 and 
they will send the glass for Hindu Black Magic 
Mirror, the bismuth and brush prepaid. Now 
procure a pint of ordinary turpentine, a yard of 
clean white linen, muslin or nainsook, for cleaning 
the glasses, etc., two saucers, which must be new, 
and a sheet of Stiff cardboard or paper to rest your 
glass on during the coating process. 

In addition to this you need a box which is 
dustproof to hold the Magic Mirror while it is 
drying and another box to contain it when fin- 
ished. This last may be obtained from any good 
confectioner. 

The Magic or Hindu Black Mirror, after it is 
finished, must he kept well tvrapped in a black 
velvet cloth when not in use. 

Everything you use in the work must be clean 
and new. 

You must not tell anyone of your project, but 
keep it a secret. 

You must do the work in a clean room, if pos- 
sible the room you have prepared and made ready, 
as described in Chapter III. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 101 

You must also prepare yourself — anger, jeal- 
ousy, meanness, all these things must be elimin- 
ated from your life completely — a pure mind, 
faith, and absolute control of yourself for at least 
a fortnight previous to the commencement of the 
work, which should be taken up with an earnest 
desire to benefit mankind. 

After you have received the glass, arrange 
your materials on a table before you and pour a 
little turpentine into one saucer and some bis- 
muth should be squeezed into the other — not too 
much for you must only go over the Mirror once. 

Place the glass on a piece of stiff carboard, 
concave side down (i. e., the hollow side down- 
wards) and carefully coat its convex side with 
the bismuth, if it is too stitf moisten it with a little 
turpentine — the glass should have been carefully 
cleaned with the turpentine before commencing 
operations at all. Lay the coating on smoothly, 
going over the glass only once and do not stop 
until it is finished. 

When it is done you will proceed to magnetise 
it by making passes over the glass with your 
hand — make whatever motion you feel inclined to 
and keep the hands about two inches above the 
glass, then hold them quite still over the Mirror 
for a time, so that the bismuth can absorb all the 
magnetism from your hand, which will grow quite 



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cold during the process. The magnetising should 
take about twenty minutes and your thoughts 
should be lifted in pure aspiration the whole time. 
You must not fail to mark the poles of the Mirror 
so that you can always keep them right and left 
and this is a most important matter as they must 
not be mistaken. The right pole will be the end of 
the glass nearest the right hand. When you have 
magnetised the Mirror you will place it in the 
drying box and leave it for seven days, when the 
process must be again repeated as on the first oc- 
casion, in fact, it is repeated three times, an in- 
terval of one week lapsing between each opera- 
tion, thus it takes three weeks to complete. 

On each occasion you must carefully wash the 
brushes and the saucers, and place the Mirror 
where there will be no prying eyes to see it and no 
unholy hands to touch it. 

This Mirror is the same as those used by the 
ancient magicians and the Hindu Seers and is a 
much more powerful instrument than you can buy 
ready made. There is only your own magnetism 
in the work and this is a most important point, 
moreover you should never allow any person to 
touch your Mirror, nor to enter the room you use, 
unless you receive clients, when you should cer- 
tainly have a different chamber to that of the cere- 
mony, for the eyes of the curious are not for your 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 103 

secrets, nor their comments for the things you 
hold sacred. 

When you have finished the Mirror you may 
use it as you would a Crystal with the exception 
that you hold it in your lap and place your 
thumbs, one on each of the poles, the right thumb 
on the right pole and the left thumb on the left 
pole. If you prefer, however, you may sit in the 
dark, then you must gaze earnestly into the depths, 
of the Mirror and wait with all patience for what 
may appear. 

*' Without Haste, Without Rest/' 

you cannot force these gifts of the spirit. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

The Astral Flame. 

Before the disciple can obtain Spirit or Astral 
Sight lie must be absolute master of himself. You 
cannot master the forces of nature until you can 
master those of your own body, and before the 
true initiation can take place, it will be necessary 
to overcome the forces of the sense nature and 
have absolute belief and faith in yourself. 

To the true initiate the physical senses and 
pleasures have no attraction, they are in the world 
but not of the world. 

Then again, the fact that the ancient adepts 
were celibate meant that they had complete con- 
trol of their sensual and physical nature or ex- 
cesses. 

When the passions are not controlled, the result 
is terrible, and the birth of countless monstrosi- 
ties, which literally throng the atmosphere and 
continually impede the spiritual and earthy prog- 
ress of the offenders, is one of the sad trials of 



THE IMAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 105 

misguided humanity. These fluidic phantoms, as 
they are called, fasten hold upon the person, and 
not all the praying and religious beliefs in the 
world can make up for this violation — they cre- 
ate abortions of the Astral Flame, things which 
are neither of the spirit nor human, monstrosities 
of vampire-like origin with no marked individual- 
ity of their own, who simply prey upon the weak 
and diseased, bringing them almost invariably to 
a terrible end. To avoid these vampires, keep 
clear of the terrible practice which creates them, 
keep your thoughts pure and your body pure — so 
shall you be free. 

There are also in the world many people who 
are involuntarily vampires in themselves. They 
are seldom aware of the fact, but they gain all 
their vitality from other people with whom they 
come in daily contact, literally absorbing their life 
forces and leaving them limp and unable to ex- 
plain the feeling of languor which has overcome 
them. When this occurs the cure is simple, make 
yourself positive to them, hold the thought of good 
firmly in your mind, and then deny the power of 
master of yourself you will know what is meant by 
evil. If you have arrived at the state of being 
this and also by studying my other chapters. 

Concentration, absolute faith and belief in your- 
self to remain steadfast against those who would 



106 MYSTIO TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

harm you, an even temper, untiring perseverance, 
pure living, freedom from animal desires — these 
must be yours if you would lift the veil which 
hides the Past and the Future. 

If you desire to develop you Spirit or Soul Sight 
so you can look into the future, and also unfold 
the past for others, you must fix your Mind upon 
one single point at a time and believe that you will 
succeed. Gaze into your Crystal and concentrate 
upon the knowledge you need — avoid speculation 
and make your Mind receptive. At the same time 
you must Will with all your might to know the 
correct solution of that which is to be unravelled. 
Eemember that the normal Clairvoyant is a power 
in himself and is not of this world only, but has 
connection with the unseen. 

The doors of Spirit Sight can only be opened 
to the man who has patience, and these words, "Will 
and Power, Belief and Faith, are the keys to their 
unfoldment. 

The Magic of Magnetism. 

It has been held for many ages, more in the East 
than in prosaic England and half-cultivated 
America, that Hoodooism or Voodooism, The 
Black Art and Diabolical Magic, as it is called — 
the Magic of Magnetism — is all humbug. 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA... 107 

This is not true as the sad records of "Witch- 
craft and Black Magic show, and if the person who 
is thus cursed, by having an evil spell throivn over 
them, has a weak and receptive mind and is will- 
ing by means of auto-suggestion and that craven 
of all cravens. Fear, to aid and carry out the will 
of the sorcerer, or the evil eye the results, are 
sometimes terrible indeed. 

By means of various proceedings the person 
thus to be cursed is impregnated with the thought 
of the operator whether he be in or out of the 
body, and where this is very concentrated, it will 
bear seeds in weak and unorganized soil. 

Sometimes the ancient Black magicians would 
mould a wax image of the victim and stick pins 
into it and curse it daily, the object of this amiable 
performance really being to concentrate the mind 
to the fullest extent upon the victim — it is simply 
a case of concentrated venom. The man or woman 
who holds a positive mind, who has learnt to rec- 
ognize the principle of eternal good, cannot be 
hurt or harmed in any way by these proceedings — 
no matter how powerful the operator. 



The magnetism in the crystal, which is focussed 
there by the flow of astral light from the eye of the 
Medium or Seer, enables you to see, and it is the 



108 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

magnetism in your person whicla causes you to 
attract or repel those you come in contact with in 
daily life. 

The rules to acquire this magnetism to such 
purpose that it can be utilized by the disciple, so 
forming that perfect mastery which will enable 
you to penetrate the secrets of nature, are as fol- 
lows : — 

The first Law is persistence, fixity of purpose. 

The second Law is attention, concentrated at- 
tention about the person or thing enquired about. 

The third Law is calmness. You can learn noth- 
ing by hurry or excitement, these things destroy 
the flow of magnetic currents. 

The fourth Law is will, the *'I will have what 
I want ' ' power of the Soul. This is the pivot upon 
which the others rotate and without it nothing can 
be done. 

The fifth Law is that of intensity. 

The sixth is that of polarity. The positive and 
negative principle of nature, it represents the 
light and darkness, male and female, the positive 
and negative side of things — I have explained this 
positive and negative in my other chapters, so I 
will not repeat them. 

The seventh Law is attraction, magnetism or 
desire. 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 109 

Man and woman are the negative and positive of 
each other, a woman is not man's equal, nor his 
superior, She is Man. 

Above I have given you the seven Laws of Mag- 
netic Attraction which constitute the true method 
of self mastery. 

The Magic Seven 

Elliaphas Levi and others taught that the world 
was governed by seven secondary causes, after- 
wards designated by Moses the Elohim. That is 
to say the Gods, not — be it remarked — God. 

These are the seven names I have given you in 
the list of Spirits for the hourly ceremony. So 
we have seven planets, seven days of the week, 
seven virtues, seven sins, seven colors of the 
prism, seven magical works, seven beasts, seven 
birds, seven fishes, seven metals. 

The stars and planets we already know, as also 
the days of the week and the musical octave. The 
planets are said to correspond to the seven vices 
and virtues, the positive and negative of each 
other. 

The Sun represents Faith, that self confidence 
which in a negative nature develops into crime, 
the negative quality of so-called vice. Hope by 
the Moon, negative quality Avarice. 



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Charity opposed to Luxury by Veims, that is 
to say love of mankind to love of self. 

Strength and Anger by Mars. 

Prudence and Industry in opposition to Idleness 
by Mercury. 

Temperance opposed to Gluttony by Saturn. 

Justice opposed to Envy by Jupiter. 

The seven attributes to the seven planets, more 
often known as the seven magical works — works 
of light and wealth under the Sun. 

Of mystery and the occult under the Moon. Of 
skill and science, and of speech under Mercury. 
Of wrath, chastisement, and of war under Mars. 
Of love, music and art under Venus. Of death and 
malediction under Saturn. Of ambition and policy 
under Jupiter. 

These must be considered when invoking the 
spirits, for unless the work suits the planet or 
genii of the hour, the invocation will not be much 
use. 

The metals are Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Fixed 
Mercury, Brass and Lead. 

The precious stones. Diamonds, Crystals, Emer- 
alds, Agates, Sapphires, Carbuncles and Onyx. 

Pentagrams or talismans are dedicated to some 
special planet and as such must have the mark of 
the planet upon them. 

A circle for the Sun, a scythe for Saturn, a 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. m 

crown for Jupiter, a sword for Mars, a capital G 
for Venus, caduceus for Mercury and a crescent 
for the Moon. 

A medallion of purest marble, white, the size of 
a half crown piece may have the pentagram en- 
graved in gold. 

If the student cares to go to the expense and 
trouble, the seven metals may be employed in the 
making of this pentagram and also the seven 
jewels, but virgin marble and gold will suffice. 
This pentagram is a powerful talisrhan for good 
apart from its uses in ceremonies, or ordinary 
talisman's upon parchment are equally as power- 
ful, and these can be prepared to order at the cost 
of 5 cents each. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

Oeiental Magic. 

The method of influence used to large extent 
by Oriental women is, if not quite so potent as 
a magnetised charm, very much easier to carry 
into execution. 

If any apology is needed for giving such in- 
structions, I may say that all my sympathies are 
with true love all the world over, and that to those 
who love legitimately and who fail, by reason of 
the interference of some other person or for some 
reason to get on with the subject of their love, I 
consider that any means are right to bring about 
such an end as may be desired, and to this purpose 
the teachings of the Rosicrucians, the Old Magi- 
cians of Germany, and others, are applied. What 
is the cause of half the misery between husband 
and wife in this twentieth century? Why just 
what it has been since the world began — misunder- 
standing — and two temperaments unsuited to one 
another. But supposing these two temperaments 
can be adjusted so as to supply that which is 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 113 

wanting? Then will harmony reign when before 
there was nothing but discord. 

A blonde nature needs warmth — it is too cold — 
and a woman who would seek the love of a dark 
man, or would regain it should learn to caress 
and thus supply his wants, let her sit before a 
Mirror or Crystal and then call up his image 
before her. She must now put into practice the 
seven laws of magnetism given in the last chapter 
and call upon the images thus invoked to come 
back to her. A woman who wants to influence 
some special man, even if she is not married and 
he is not her husband, can do so by thus calling 
up the man's image, and then acting upon it as 
already stated. 

No man can resist this practice when it is kept 
up steadily, and it is even said that these Oriental 
women can bring to themselves an unknown man 
from out of the world at large, by concentrating 
upon their soul partner until the image comes 
forth she feels she can love, then by the same laws 
of magnetism she will bring this unknown man 
into her life. Now all this is simply magnetic or 
Spirit Clairvoyance from first to last, and there is 
not a shade of mystery in the whole matter. These 
things are done in our everyday life but little 
because very few Europeans and Americans know 
what a power they possess. Indeed it may be that 



114 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

they may not have so much power as the Orientals, 
for the former are brought up in an atmosphere 
of mystery and occultism, and the latter are 
mostly prosaic and material. But the true Clair- 
voyant is very seldom Saxon, there is generally a 
strain of either Celtic or Latin blood to account 
for the Seer's power, albeit it is said that a pure 
virgin or a spotless boy can always see clearly 
when they are tested, but of this I have my doubts, 
for this is a power that must be cultivated and 
developed. 

But one thing is very sure, and that is that the 
magnetic Clairvoyance can be more easily and as 
surely utilized as the more expensive and costly 
processes in use amongst Orientalists. To ascend 
to more ethereal and spiritual uses for clear vision 
we come to the all important question of the 
esoteric meanings of color and numbers, and 
here be it understood that I am not in any way 
referring to the meanings, etc., already given, 
but to a very much higher sense, which is possible 
to the adepts comprehension, and far above that 
of the neophyte. There is ever thus an inner and 
outer meaning, the one for the ignorant and the 
other for those who know. 

The consideration of the inner sense of color 
as supplied to the Divine man, and of numbers as 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 115 

applied to the same, will answer to the following 
scale of colors, etc., etc. 

We will begin at the fountain head, Divinity, 
that which is, and which governs all. 
Divinity or the Divine Being. 
Number 1 Color — White. 
First, The Hindu Sign — Aja. 
The Spirit, the Entity, the Individuality. 
God the Father, the Creator. 
Number 2 Color — Deep Violet. 
Second Hindu Sign — Beth. 
The Positive or Sense Consciousness. 
The male and female expression Will Person- 
ality. The active generative principle. The di- 
vision of the Soul into male and female forms. 
Mind Sensory Organisms. 
The Mystic Interpretation of man and woman. 
Number 3 Color — Pale Yellow. (The dividing 
line between the gross and the ethereal.) 
Third Hindu Sign — Gimel. 
The Universal Life, Generation, etc. 

Postive or Electrical. 
Man. 
Will. 

Intelligence. 
Power. 

Action. 

Negative or Magnetic. 



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Woman. 

Love. 

"Wisdom. 

Understanding. 

Intuition. 

The Human Hand and Woman. 

Number 4 Color — Rose. 

Fourth Hindu Sign — Daleth. 

Man or Woman on the Earth Plane. The cre- 
ative principle in the material form. God's work 
made manifest. Human Love. 

The Divine Man and Woman. 

Number 5 Color — Purple. 

Fifth Hindu Sign— He. 

Man. Intelligence. 

Woman. Understanding. 

Love. . Power. 

Will. Intuition. 

Wisdom. Action. 

Divinity. 

Here we see the qualities reversed and merged, 
bearing out the statement made in a previous 
chapter, that man and woman were one, parts of a 
perfect whole. 

The Universe. 

Number 6 Color — Green, 

Sixth Hindu Sign — Vau. 



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The perfect blending of God and Nature, the 
universal love principle and life in all its varied 
phases. 

Materiality, Evil, Ignorance. 

Number 7 Color — Black. 

Seventh Hindu Sign — Zain. 

The earth principles, the desire for conquest, 
for gain, and for eairthly honor and glory. The 
material plane, from whence the spirit at a mo- 
mentary standstill, is ready to work its way back 
to paradise. 

Eemember that Black is absorbent, and White 
the reflection of light. 

The soul is both male and female, is really sex- 
less, and it is an absolute necessity that it should 
materialize in the forms of both man and woman 
here on earth, so that the perfection of experience 
may be gained. 



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CHAPTEB X. 

Occult Symbols and Their Teue Meaning. 

In this chapter it is necessary to bear in mind 
that a great many people see clairvoyantly not 
in actual vision, but by means of symbols, and 
that these symbols again are often shrouded in 
color which adds a new meaning to them, I am 
giving these meanings also. 

Trees. When bright and green signify growth, 
development — when dark and dreary looking they 
often signify deception. 

A ship in full sail means a water journey, when 
it is sailing away, but when it is sailing to the 
subject it means coming news, if the ship is en- 
veloped in grey, the news is sad or worrying, but 
if bright colors enshroud it, the news is good. If 
black clouds or a skull and cross bones appear on 
the sails, then is the person you are gazing for 
about to cross the border. 

A woman naked, standing under a bright light, 
signifies maternity, but an empty cradle would 
signify that hopes in this line are doomed to be 
disappointed. 

The rising sun indicates marriage for a woman 



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and for a man success, but if it is clouded, it means 
money troubles, and if eclipsed, it means often 
bankruptcy or ruin. 

The symbol of pigs means always human beings 
who will work mischief, if they are white then it 
means they are white people, if black then it 
means that they are colored people. 

The moon when full signifies success, but when 
half a moon appears with clouds it indicates that 
all plans will be very unsettled and much worry 
will befall the person sitting. 

A long white road full of pebbles and stones 
means trials and difficulties overcome. 

A long dark passage or entrance with a bright 
light at the end means that the person will have 
sudden knowledge and enlightment into hidden 
and secret things. 

A key also means knowledge and a serpent with 
light blue clouds or color rings means sensation 
and sometimes lust, with yellow clouds or color 
rings, love of hidden sciences, with light red it 
means reproduction of species, with bright green 
it means cautiousness, sometimes secrecy, and 
without any color rings it means wisdom. 

A crown means victory and a crown and sword 
means the same thing. However, a bird sitting 
on the crown means power of growth and ob- 
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To see a large drinking cup with light red 
colors around it means love and often sudden 
news. With light blue it signifies a desire for 
knowledge, with grey it signifies helplessness, with 
dark red it signifies sensuality, often the drink or 
the drug habit and with great flashes of red and 
black it signifies vices, bad thoughts^ sometimes 
insanity and even death. The play of dark red 
round this symbol is never good. 

A padlock and key with bright light (clear) 
around and behind it signifies Truth, and often 
spiritual illumination, with dark blue it means 
egotism, selfishness, with black or dark red or 
reddish brown, particularly the last, it means mi- 
serliness, greed and often hate, but if the symbol 
appears in the left corner of the crystal attended 
by clouds and flashes of black and scarlet it means 
murder, imprisonment, and very intense, execu- 
tion, if the flashes are followed by pure pale colors 
the meaning is aquittal. 

To see bottles with light red color, hospitality 
and feasting, often an invitation, if attended by 
dark red it means sensuality, often drunken feast- 
ing and always unfaithfulness. With a bright 
scarlet red it means adultery and attended by 
scarlet and dark green it may sometimes mean 
divorce. 

A picture of a man or woman holding a bottle in 



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the left hand and with scarlet clouds or dark red 
colors round them will indicate an adventurer or 
adventuress, according to sex. 

To see a vision of Christ means redemption. 

A dove means peace, reconciliation, with much 
light red it means a love of home life, and domestic 
happiness. 

A lot of luggage means a journey abroad if it 
has dark green clouds of color in it, but if it has 
much yellow in it it means mechanical invention, 
and if with violet the invention will be a big suc- 
cess — the best of symbols. 

A skull means authority, but with much blue 
surrounding it it means blasted hopes, grievous 
disappointment, when there is a play of bright 
pure light around it it means psychic perception, 
mystic power. 

To see a violin or stringed instrument means 
intuition, and with much violet light, ideality. 

To see a cross with light red surrounding it 
means much love and marriage. Much happiness, 
with black it means sacrifice and with much violet 
it means a love child. 

The vision of a heart means conquest, some- 
times love and emotion, particularly when light 
red is around, but in the event of much scarlet be- 
ing seen it means sensuality, with much grey it 
means grief, but when it appears on the left side 



133 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

with large and prominent clouds of light blue it 
means a valuable document, possibly a bank note 
or money order, but with brown coloring, still on 
the left side, it means an overdraft, with black, 
deep disappointment. 

A sleeping child means motherhood, but if there 
is much yellow round it it means discovery, ap- 
pearing in the centre of the crystal with violet 
shades it means pregnancy. 

The symbol of a pen means authorship, but with 
a pen much grey and black means trouble through 
the signing of a name. 

To see a bird means aspiration — if the bird is 
flying, hasty news. The symbol of a railway 
train means the same thing. 

A large bird to the left of the crystal with black 
and red clouds means vampirism. 

A large human eye means protection, intuition, 
the gift of prophecy and an anchor means rest. 

A viper means treachery and a spider means 
entanglement. 

A triangle means psychic power. A bat flying 
means great treachery. Hands without arms 
means a warning from across the border. A pea- 
cock flitting through glass also means a warning, 
often of coming danger. 

Horses are always good, but the gallows will 



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mean disgrace, not necessarily death upon the 
same. 

Much money means riches, but when it is fol- 
lowed by a cloud of black which sweeps down over 
the money and covers it, then you can predict a 
loss of money, instead of gain. 

The numbers also have an occult signij5cance 
and do not always, indeed very seldom, mean 
dates. 1 means with a pure white light Unity, 
God, the Universe, with any other color it means 
the beginning of a new enterprise, changes. 2 
with pure light means force, with pale colors it 
means intuitive knowledge of unseen things. 3 
means a birth, creation. 4 with light colors means 
a new and successful enterprise, but with dark red 
it means the same with loss. 5 means aspiration. 
6 Human love. 7 is the mystic number and also 
means victory, it is always good. 8 is the mother 
principle, it means also trouble which hanging in 
the balance will be decided after long waiting. 9 
means warfare. 10 is the symbol of a perfect 
sphere, it signifies magnetic force, magic power. 

When dates come into the crystal or the mental 
vision do not pay much attention unless you get 
the whole date, say May 22nd, then if a similar 
date appears at the left hand side it is this year, if 
on the right it is distant, maybe a year or two, but 



124 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

anything whicli comes right in the centre of the 
crystal and appears to be clearly cut will happen 
very shortly. If it appears dim and way back it 
will be distant. 



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CHAPTER XI. 

Clairvoyant Vision. 

In the somewhat difficult art of obtaining Clair- 
voyant visions from articles belonging to people 
who are not present, the great thing is patient 
practice, try with everything that may come into 
your possession, hold it to your forehead, or in 
your hand, and make your mind blank, cease any 
speculation, and wait until you either feel what 
relates to the person or see it in the crystal, never 
doubt any results you may obtain, but go on prac- 
ticing patiently until you acquire the power of 
reading as clearly the history conveyed through 
the article as if the person were before you in the 
flesh. 

It is necessary that the article has been touched 
well, a ring, a handkerchief, a letter, anything will 
do that has been handled sufficiently to have taken 
on and retained the Auea and it should be borne 
in mind that it must not be touched by other peo- 
ple for fear of mixing the vibrations of the dif- 
ferent Auras. Do not make the mistake of form- 
ing theories ; never give any single fact unless you 



126 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

can feel it, thinking is not any use, you must be 
sure, if you make your mind blank and don 't argue 
with yourself the results will flash into your mind 
and as convictions they will be true. 

In the question of inspirational writing it is 
very much the same thing, do not mix inspiration 
with spirit control, they are quite different things, 
make your mind blank as in the case of above 
practice, and then take a pencil in your hand and 
sit down quietly and wait, write anything that 
comes to you — do not mind what drivel it is, but 
just persevere and in the course of a few days 
possibly, or weeks at any rate, you will find that 
you are no longer writing drivel, but things which 
will surprise yourself and which you may have 
been unaware of knowing even dimly. 

In the development of clair-audience, you will 
find the same methods apply. Sit down alone and 
in silence, still your mind and thoughts and listen 
with all your attention and you will in time hear 
that which mortal ears hear not as a rule. 

For Telepathy, however, I have small patience 
with the usual card reading methods of to-day. 
The first essential is a partner who is in sympathy 
with you and to whom you can turn for experi- 
ments. You can either arrange with him to sit at 
certain times in a receptive state of mind or you 
need make no appointment with him, but make 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 127 

him catch your thought without previous notice, 
sit down and make a strong mental picture of 
your friend, hold it in your mind clearly, now 
picture him coming towards you, watch him, men- 
tally, covering the journey between his house and 
your own, now call him aloud by name two or three 
times, say ''John Smith," or whatever his name 
is, "I want you, come to me." You will find that 
in a very short time he will come to you. 

Then you can proceed to send him more dis- 
tinctive messages, make him bring you some ar- 
ticle you want, some book or paper, after a time 
he will do this easily too, then you can try sending 
him short sentences and arrange with him that he 
will take them down, it is astonishing in how short 
a time you can communicate and that over any dis- 
tance, with those who are away from you. I do 
not know of any authenticated instance of this 
being done where there was a lack of sympathy be- 
tween the experimenters. 

I have made some wonderful experiments along 
these lines myself, and had most interesting re- 
sults, not with any one person but many. I do 
best with my true Chela's (Disciples), possibly be- 
cause the sympathy between us is always perfect. 
# # * * * * * 

The Astral Lights hold the images of the ele- 
mentals as I have explained in other lessons, when 



128 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

you see these visions clairvoyantly you can make 
them of use to you, but as a rule those which 
will be of most use to you are those in your own 
particular sphere, for instance if you are born 
under a fire sign, then you can use the elementals 
of that realm and so on. When you see the ele- 
mental, you have then but to tell them the work 
you want carried out and it will be performed. 
You can send them forth upon your errand, cer- 
tain that it will be done. The good commands 
relate to adeptship, the evil to sorcery and Black 
Magic pure and simple. The spirit thus invoked, 
by either black or white magic, although only visi- 
ble to the clairvoyant eye, is distinctly felt by 
those who are not in any way clairvoyant, and 
very often to their discomfort and fear. Black 
Magic should be left alone, but it is necessary for 
the would-be adept to know all about it, not for 
use at all but for avoidance. 

When you command an elemental you can send 
them as I have said upon any errand you desire, 
but you can only make them do it in their own 
sphere. 

In the more difficult matter of making other peo- 
ple not gifted clairvoyantly to see the vision clear 
to you, I do not at all advise my pupils to try this 
frequently, since it is very trying to their nerves. 
When you have the image clearly upon you, place 



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your hand upon that of the person you wish to see, 
then fix all your will poiver upon the desire that 
they too shall see, also keeping the vision very 
clearly cut before your eyes. 

It is in fact a pure effort of will, possibly even 
it may be more truthfully described as an hypnotic 
effort, for the subject in the hypnotic sleep will 
see what you desire him to, and so here always 
demand absolute passivity and make his mind an 
absolute blank, not to think of anything but to 
wait and expect to see the vision. When you have 
him in this condition, when your own will is strong 
and properly under control, you will make him 
see what you see perfectly clearly, the only draw- 
back is that it is fearfully exhausting to you. 

You need a good deal of practice to perform 
this successfully and indeed I think that most per- 
sons who wish to gain strength of will, will find 
much help from the study and practice of hypno- 
tism. 



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CHAPTEE XII. 

The Occult Meaning of Spirit Lights^ Visions, 
Dreams^ Signs and Warnings. 

Occult Lights. — I will now explain to you the 
correct meaning of the different colored occult 
lights, which will appear to you from time to time 
during and after your development in Clairvoy- 
ance or Spirit Sight. 

Should you be sitting at the table, or in the 
presence of anyone, or should you be holding a 
private or public entertainment, better known to 
all Mediums as a spiritual seance, and the differ- 
ent lights appear, the meaning is as follows : 

Eed Occult Light. 

Should the Red Light Appear, it denotes that 
the spirit is an Indian who is trying to reveal 
something to you. If the light changes from a 
deep red to a light red it denotes that this Indian 
is your guide. If it appears over a person to 
whom you are addressing, tell them there is money 
buried or hidden near where they reside, and the 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 131 

spirit is trying to reveal it to them, or tell them, 
if you are impressed to do so, there is a secret 
surromiding them, or some one they are interested 
in, and this secret will soon be discovered. If the 
light raises toward the ceiling and falls quickly to 
the floor, we then advise you to follow the light 
with the mind's eye, as it will lead you to the 
place of location, matters not if it is money, or 
something else of importance. The spirit Indian 
always makes his first appearance, by showing you 
a red light. 

Geeen Light. — If a green light appears to you 
while you are alone it denotes that some person 
is using you with deceit, this will be given to you 
by your guide for your own individual self. But 
if the light appears over a person to whom you 
are addressing tell them that some one is using 
them with deceit and for them to be careful of 
false friends, and new acquaintances. 

Blue Light. — The blue light means the presence 
of a high and fully developed spirit, and only ap- 
pears when there are great blessings and agree- 
able surprises coming. The moment you see this 
light you will feel most happy, and you should al- 
ways act upon your first impressions after this 
vision appears. 



132 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

Yellow Light. — Should you be sitting with a 
person and a yellow light appears at their feet, 
tell them to be careful of a near future illness 
(Fever). If it appears over their head, tell them 
there is some one in their family who is suffering 
and there are grave hopes for their recovery. 

Lamp Light. — In case you are sitting talking to 
a person, and you see a lamp appear before you, 
burning, and it suddenly goes out, it denotes that 
a member of the family will pass away within a 
year. If the lamp remains burning and the sec- 
ond lamp appears also burning it denotes a mar- 
riage in the immediate family. This vision is also 
used when persons ask you a question pertaining 
to marriage ; for instance, if some one asks you if 
a marriage will take place, wait for a minute, and 
if the vision appears according to the explanation 
of the two lamps you can tell them positively yes. 

Purple Light. — Signijfies the presence of the 
ethereal forces which is the highest and most pow- 
erful spirits, who only appear at certain times, 
but whenever it appears it denotes brightness, ele- 
vation, happiness and prosperity, especially for 
yourself and the one to whom you are addressing. 
It matters not what you see, every object has a 
great significance, and your spirit guides will ex- 
plain much more to you as you grow stronger. 



THE MAaiO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 133 

You will find that the purple light will seldom 
appear when you first start to develop your power, 
not that the higher spirits do not want to come, 
but for the reason, you are not, as a rule, strong 
enough at the beginning to attract spirits of this 
sphere, as it requires wonderful spiritual mag- 
nets ; a person when developing is a spiritual mag- 
net for either good or evil forces. A pure mind 
and a clean body make a good magnet, and will 
attract good influences. 

Black Cloud. — In case you are sitting, giving 
a person a reading, or if you are at a church, 
theatre, or matters not where, or upon what oc- 
casion, and you should see a Black Cloud appear 
over a person, it denotes a death is close at hand 
for the person to whom the cloud appears. If the 
Cloud should chance to be a light blue it denotes 
slight trouble surrounding the person to whom it 
appears, but that person will soon recover from 
it, and gain victory in the end. If the cloud ap- 
pears to be a dark grey, it denotes accident. If a 
light grey it denotes illness of a close member in 
the family. They will fall sick, but will recover. 

Again, I will say, allow yourself to have per- 
fect confidence in these visions, and try to develop 
along in this line as forms, lights, birds, beasts 
and flowers will appear to you from time to time, 



134 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

and lead you in the light of many wonderful 
things. I want you to continue in this manner 
until you can master these instructions I have so 
far given you. Always allow yourself to firmly 
believe every thought or impression passing 
through your mind whilst sitting (for either your- 
self or some one who has employed you), is the 
spirit talking to you. Never forget your duty 
toward those souls out of the body, called spirits, 
as they assist you many times. 

Vision op Flowees. 

The Vision op Flowers. — "Wlien reading for a 
person, or if for yourself, and the vision of flowers 
appear, their meaning is as follows: Fennel 
Flower, worthy of all praise; White Eose, ele- 
gance ; Balm, sympathy ; Bendal Eose, happy love ; 
Buttercup, ingratitude ; Deep Eed Carnation, true 
love ; Chrysanthemum, cheerfulness ; China Aster, 
sentiment; Eed Clover, industry; Citron, weak- 
ness, easily led, also lack of will power; Holly, 
patience; Eagged Eobin, wit; Pineapple, perfect; 
Pinks, boldness ; Narcissus, egotism ; Oak Leaves, 
bravery; Oak Tree, power and hospitality; Lilac, 
confidence ; Violet, faithfulness ; Tree of Life, old 
age; Apple Blossoms (white), deceitful (pink), af- 
fection; Lettuce, cold heartedness; Willow, for- 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. I35 

saken; Tree Foil, revengeful; Yellow Lily, deceit 
and falsehood ; Heliotrope, faithful, honest, frank- 
ness, determination and generosity. 

If strict attention is paid to this lesson it will 
enable the Disciple to read the full and true dis- 
position of persons by the vision of flowers. 

In this lesson I have given you the true spirit 
omen of flowers. 

When Beading Clairvoyantly, do not say to a 
person, "I see a flower, and it is a rose;" or do 
not say, * ' I see a bird, " or an object of any kind, 
as it would sound entirely out of place to those 
not familiar with the laws of Clairvoyance. Al- 
ways speak of the meaning. For instance, you are 
reading the life of a lady or a gentleman, and you 
should see the Fennel Flower appear; or, you 
should see also the Yellow Lily, the Willow and 
the Lilac, speak thusly: '^You are worthy of all 
praise, but at times you feel forsaken; you place 
too much confidence in those who are only using 
you with deceit, and also telling falsehoods about 
you, etc. 

No doubt you will think these visions very sim- 
ple, but I will say even so, they are direct from 
the spirit guides, and they are showing you these 
wonderful visions, and are attempting to have you 
understand their meaning. 



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You will have from time to time many visions, 
and I could speak of many more ; but for the want 
of space I am obliged to omit many of them; but 
I have given you what I think is most needed for 
your future development. The spirits will show 
you many things as you grow stronger, and at the 
same time they will impress you as to the meaning 
of what they do show you. 

The Vision of Birds, Beasts and Objects. 

Spieitual. Meaning of Birds, Beasts, Forms, 
Etc. — Should you be sitting, and see a white dove 
appear at the table, or otherwise, it denotes a good 
message from afar off. Should the dove seem- 
ingly go away, and then appear with one wing 
black, it denotes a message of illness from a near 
friend. If the wing is tipped with a white edge, 
it denotes illness of a near relative. In case the 
dove dematerializes, and then quick returns with 
both wings black, it denotes a death of a near 
connection. 

The Bird of Wisdom. — The Owl is known as the 
spirit bird of wisdom, and when it appears before 
you holding in its mouth a letter, the message is 
as follows : The one to whom you are addressing 
is involved in business matters, and is seriously 
contemplating a change. Then tell them they will 
make a change in business which will prove for 



THE MAGHO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 137 

the better. If the Owl seemingly opens the letter, 
then tell the person you are reading for that they 
are terribly worried, but worry is unnecessary, 
for they will soon discover new ideas that will 
relieve them of all trouble. Should the Owl fly 
around and around the person, that denotes the 
person in question will soon gain secret wisdom 
from friends, who will help him out of all troubles 
and perplexities. 

Black Raven. — When a black raven appears it 
denotes great suffering and distress. Should it 
hold in its bill an object, it denotes that provisions 
are being made for the one who is distressed. The 
raven is also protection, and when it is seen flying- 
over a person's head it denotes that trouble and 
worry surrounds the person, and some one will 
come in due time to protect them from harm. 

Bald Eagle. — Should you see a bald eagle fly 
towards a person it denotes losses, financially es- 
pecially, and you should at once tell the person to 
whom you are addressing to be careful of all finan- 
cial investments. Remember, when you see these 
visions, do not say to the person, '*I see an eagle," 
or *'I see a raven." Say to them, ''I see that you 
are about to invest in something financially, but 
I see you should be careful, for there are losses 
ahead of you," etc. 



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Peacock.— Should you be sitting, or otherwise, 
and chance to see a peacock appear behind a per- 
son, it denotes that person is full of vanity, and 
if you will only try you can flatter them to such an 
extent that they will worship you. This is a vision 
I seldom care to see, for when it appears it gen- 
erally leads to you discovering many unpleasant 
things pertaining to the person to whom it ap- 
pears. They are not only full of vanity, but they 
are generally deceitful and dishonest ; but you can 
read for them as you are impressed. 

The Vision of a Rainbow. — Should you be sit- 
ting with a person, and you see the vision of a 
rainbow appear over them, read as follows : ' ' My 
dear friend, I see that you are terribly worried 
over domestic troubles, but you can cheer up ; all 
troubles will soon vanish, and your heart will be 
changed from sadness to perfect happiness, and 
opportunities will soon present themselves favor- 
ably for you to gain that which you are now 
grasping for ; go on — all will be well. ' ' 

A Vision of a Sea Gull. — When you see a sea 
gull appear, seemingly in the far distance, it de- 
notes that the person to whom you are addressing 
has a dear friend across the ocean, and that there 
is a message of brightness coming to them. This 
is a most beautiful vision, and to watch the gull 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 139 

you will see that it performs all kinds of move- 
ments as it comes nearer to the person. 

Prison Baes. — "When appearing directly in back 
of a person it denotes legal confinement. When 
appearing directly in front of a person it denotes 
anticipated crime. When appearing to the left of 
a person it denotes a male relative will be confined 
in prison ; if to the right, it will be that of a female. 

Vision of Fiee. — This has two distinct mean- 
ings. First, anger; second, destruction; but we 
advise the Medium to speak of this according to 
impressions, as you will find, as you grow 
stronger, that when fire appears many other vis- 
ions are bound to follow. 

While writing the last paragraph we are ad- 
vised by our guide to inform you that the vision 
of fire also denotes buried money, valuable papers, 
etc., but only in such cases where it appears be- 
fore you out in the open air (wood, fields or plain). 
Many times an Occult ball of fire will appear be- 
fore you, and continue to follow you like a shadow. 
Whenever this occurs I would advise you to pay 
strict attention to this, as many times it will lead 
you to the very spot where the spirit wishes you 
to go. I have seen a ball of fire appear about the 
size of an ordinary apple, and lower itself down to 
the earth, and remain for several minutes. When 



140 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

such occurs it is then positive evidence of val- 
uables being at the exact spot or that a crime has 
been committed there. 

Vision op Snakes. — The vision of snakes in all 
cases and upon all occasions positively denotes 
evil and meanness of every description. When 
appearing around yourself beware of all persons 
for some time to come ; that is to say, of those of 
whom you think are not your friends and also 
watch those who pretend to be your friends. When 
appearing in the lap, around the neck or waist of 
those you are addressing, do not trust them out of 
your sight, for they are of evil and will do evil 
to their best friend. Should the snake appear 
upon the floor, or seemingly creeping toward the 
person, tell them to be aware of all enemies and 
evil-doers, but remember the persons to whom a 
snake appears are generally of evil character. 

But when you are reading, and see a snake ap- 
pear near the person, do not tell them they are 
evil, as I do not approve of telling people of their 
evil ; always tell them of the good that they pos- 
sess, if any, and I advise you to read as follows : 
* * I see there are evil influences around you, and it 
is advisable for you to change from such as soon 
as you possibly can, or it will prove greatly to 
your disadvantage." By reading in this manner 



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it will appeal to them more forcibly, and at the 
same time be correct. 

The Vision of an Eye. — In case a large, black 
eye appears, it denotes that someone is shadowing 
you, or planning evil against you, and by watch- 
ing the eye steadily it will enable you to recognize 
the person, should you chance to meet them at any 
time. If the eye is a large, blue one it is always a 
friend. 

Vision of a Cross. — When a cross appears to 
you, it denotes contention; when it appears over 
a person it denotes sorrow, worries, troubles and 
crosses in life. After you have fully developed, 
you will find that whenever you are to have a 
trouble or a quarrel with anyone, the cross will 
always appear before the said troubles come upon 
you, thus enabling you to guard against the same, 
although trouble is many times indicated by 
muddy water. 

The Vision of an Anchor. — To see an anchor 
appear over a person, read in this manner : * * You 
are about to venture out into the gulf of enterprise. 
Gain and happiness is before you; go on, dear 
friend; you will surely land upon the foundation 
of success." 

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denotes that which is hoped for will be lost, and 
you should tell the person that they will be disap- 
pointed in whatever they have on their mind, at 
the time when calling to see you. 

The Vision or a Swoed denotes that the person 
is halting between two opinions ; they do not know 
what course to pursue. Then, if you see the sword 
wave in the air and point north, it denotes success 
for the person, and they should act upon their 
first proposition. If the sword appears in two 
parts it denotes law suit and losses. To get more 
light upon this subject, kindly request your spirit 
guide to give you further impressions. Then 
speak accordingly. 

The Vision of an Ear of Coen.^ — Should you be 
sitting with a person and you should see an ear of 
corn appear before them, and the ear is full of 
well-formed, healthy corn, tell them they will soon 
meet with wonderful success, and the coming 
events of their life will be absolutely successful. 
It positively signifies full and plenty. In order to 
ascertain if a person has money, ask your spirit 
guide the question, and you will see them bring 
you an ear of full corn. If the ear appears to be 
scant, tell the person they are surrounded with 
poverty, and those who are poverty-stricken will 
continue to meet with the same for some time to 



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come. If two ears of corn appear, it denotes pov- 
erty at present, but success will soon follow, and 
the person will gain greater wealth and happiness. 
Again, I will say to you, pay strict attention to 
all visions that appear before you and all dreams 
and all impressions that are given to you, even 
though you may think this very simple ; but allow 
me to state that spirits do show these things and 
give secret information and warnings in dreams 
and visions, which you will do well to study and 
try and understand. You might think to yourself, 
or ask, ''Wliy do the spirits not show or tell us 
just what all these things mean, without showing 
so many strange visions I ' ' Well, it is their ways, 
and we must abide by their laws. If you remem- 
ber reading when "Jesus, the Master," appeared 
to His disciples, He spoke to them in parables. 
We might say, ''Wliy did Jesus speak parabol- 
ically to His followers'?" But we know such was 
the case with Jesus, and such is the case with 
spirits. You have no right to question these 
things, and it is utterly impossible to be misled 
if you will study and attempt to properly interpret 
and understand those signs that are given from 
spirit life. 



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TELEPATHY. 
CHAPTER XIII. 

The Peojection of Asteal Messages. 

In dealing with the question of Telepathic com- 
nmnication, I am not only giving you the best I 
know and practical development, but I am also 
giving you knowledge concerning my greatest 
hobby — a hobby I have not taught others before, 
and in which I have conducted some very remark- 
able experiments. 

Telepathy is the central factor in every phase 
of Psychical Research. In common with all physic 
development the faculty of thought reading and 
thought communication requires certain condi- 
tions, and a degree of patient experiment. 

It is more easily developed in its simplest forms 
than Clairvoyance or any other method of re- 
search, and in its more intricate and advanced 
stages it can be brought to such a pitch of perfec- 
tion that communication can be established be- 



THE MAGIO AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 145 

tween people tliousands of miles apart, and that 
continuously; the psychic body of those persons 
can be also projected, regardless of the ordinary 
means of locomotion. 

The first question is that of suitability of tem- 
perament. The very gross and material will 
never succeed, although the necessary conditions 
are far less stringent than those for the Clair- 
voyant, but for higher development, of course, 
rigid laws are enforced. 

The nature of the student is next to be consid- 
ered. As in telegraphy there is a transmitter and 
receiver, and whilst some people can both receive 
and transmit, others can only do one or the other. 

People who are very strong-willed and positive 
will make the best transmitters, and the people 
who are passive and negative the best receivers. 

The positive people send the messages — nega- 
tive people receive them. Where perfect rapport 
is established between two people, they can both 
transmit and receive regardless of such conditions, 
and this should be the aim of all students. 

People born in April, August and December 
will be the most positive as a rule; those born in 
July, November and March, the best receivers. 
People born in June, October and February can 
both transmit and receive with ease. Those born 
in January, May and September, once they throw 



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ojff their material tendencies, will also be able to 
transmit and receive, and can develop very fine 
powers. 

So far as mntiial understanding is concerned, 
the people who will work best together are as 
follows : 

Those born in xipril with people born in June 
and February. 

Those born in May with people born in July and 
March. 

Those born in June with people born in April 
and August. 

Those born in July with people born in May and 
September. 

Those born in August with people born in June 
and October. 

Those born in September with people born in 
November and July. 

Those born in October with those born in 
August and December. 

Those born in November with people born in 
September and January. 

Those born in December with people born in 
October and February. 

Those born in January with people born in 
November and March. 

Those bom in February with people born in 
April and May. 



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Those born in March with people born in 
January and May. 

Also it will frequently be found that successful 
experiments may be made between people born 
in March, August and December, those born in 
January, December and May, those born in Feb- 
ruary, June and October, those born in July, 
November and March. 

These rules are arbitrary; so much depends 
upon the instruments used, and those who wish 
to develop the faculty should choose their part- 
ners according to the scale — this is, however, only 
for continuous experiment, for by following my 
instructions you can accurately read the thoughts 
of any person upon whom you choose to concen- 
trate your attention. Of this, however, more in a 
later chapter. 

The Law which enables a man's thought, the 
most delicate and subtle factor in operation upon 
our present plane (next to spirit) to be transmit- 
ted from one mind and to be received and compre- 
hended by another. 

Thought forms take the nature of pictures as a 
rule — you think of a rose, for instance, not as a 
word, but as an image of the flower. You send 
your thought in a method I will explain, not as the 
word rose, but as the mental picture. This pic- 
ture impresses itself with more or less force on 



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the mind of the receiver. He may be conscious of 
the picture, for these thought (pictures) flashes 
come swifter than lightning, but he at once grasps 
the meaning and thinks of "the rose." The mes- 
sage has been accurately transmitted. How? 
The student asks naturally enough. 

If my friend is in Chicago and I am in Madras, 
India, what makes the journey of a single thought 
over that vast distance possible? The same 
medium which enables Light and Sound to travel 
the Ether. 

People who are not given to thinking do not 
trouble themselves with any conjecture as to what 
exists beyond the atmosphere which circles the 
earth. In simple words, the Ether is a substance 
which fills all space — Infinity. Science has proved 
to us that every conceivable object, from thought, 
the physical body of man, the air we breathe, the 
water we drink, down to the grains of sand upon 
the seashore, are composed of billions and billions 
of tiny atoms. 

The Ether is not composed of atoms — it is a 
smooth substance, filling all space; it does not 
cause any friction to bodies or particles moving 
through it, and it is not subject to the laws of 
gravitation. It has been described as a "jelly- 
like substance, ' ' and to put the matter in plain but 
unscientific terms it has the property of carrying 



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atoms of any nature, very much as water will 
carry a log of wood, simply by the wave motion 
in the water ; there is a similar wave motion in the 
Ether, and light, sound, thought, etc., are among 
the objects which travel through this invisible 
substance, differing only from the log of wood in 
rate of speed and the method of vibration. 

Without this universal substance, Telepathy 
would be impossible. The finer the atom the more 
swiftly it travels, for then it has what is techni- 
cally known as ''free path" to vibrate in; the 
more concentrated the thought the quicker it flies 
and there is less liability of filtration through the 
atmosphere — weak and vacillating thought will 
filter away in the atmosphere like steam and be 
lost long before it can reach its goal, but a con- 
centrated thought will fly straight as an arrow 
and hit its mark. So the second Law of Telepathy 
is concentration. 

In fact Telepathy may be defined as similar to 
wireless telegraphy, the instruments used being 
the delicate mechanism of brain and spirit or the 
subjective mind. 

For "Mind-reading" as an amusement very 
little preparation is necessary. Almost every- 
body can emulate the tricks of the well known 
Thought Readers; time, patience, and a little en- 
thusiasm are the necessary outfit. Yet even for 



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those trivial experiments, the purer your body and 
mind, the better yonr results. A clean body, i. e., 
a bath either once or twice a day, so far as exter- 
nals go ; spotless linen, clean inside ; no spirits or 
alcohol, little or no meat — better not any — and 
give no room to impure thoughts, learn to control 
anger, envy and all uncharitableness. All these 
things cloud your mental or spiritual atmosphere, 
and prevent the sending or receiving of telepathic 
messages. 

So far as ordinary Mind-reading is concerned 
two people are needed to carry out the experi- 
ments. The Mind Reader must belong to one of 
the less positive groups. The man or woman born 
in August, April or December, will have too strong 
an individuality to become receptive (without a 
lengthy training) to other people's thoughts, and 
those born in June, July (up to the 21st), Novem- 
ber, February and March, will be the best readers. 
They need a second person as operator, one born 
in August, April, December, January, May or Sep- 
tember, to help them carry out the proceedings. 

The Mind Eeader is then blindfolded, and taken 
out of hearing — better still out of the room; the 
people remaining decide upon a test — many of the 
tests are well known, but may be used by begin- 
ners. Place a pin in any position, in any part of 
the house, or even out of the house ; let every per- 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 151 

son who wishes to test the Mind Reader know 
where the pin is; the operator mentioned above 
must also know. 

The Mind Reader or Telepathist is then brought 
in, and the positive person, who acts as operator, 
stands behind the Telepathist and curves the 
fingers round so that both hands are poised over 
the temples, but not touching the head of the 
Telepathist. Every person present thinks of the 
pin and its hiding place, and the operator concen- 
trates his whole thought and will upon the Telepa- 
thist 's brain, trying to impress the picture there, 
and willing steadily all the time that he shall go 
straight after the pin — not a word must be spoken 
by anybody. After a few seconds the Telepathist 
will sway from side to side, as if uncertain where 
to go, then will suddenly make a start and go 
straight off towards the pin — the Operator will 
not touch the Telepathist but simply guard against 
falls. 

After a week or two of practice, a sensitive per- 
son will be able to find any object at any distance 
in this way. 

Although this experiment is trivial and not new, 
it is excellent training for those who desire to 
open up these channels of silent communication, 
sharpens their senses and teaches their mind 
concentration. 



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In telepathic experiments with cards you can 
pass over the simple tests common with ordinary 
Mind Eeaders. For instance, the audience may 
select a single card, impress it on their mind, and 
thence to the mind of the Telepathist. 

A much more difficult feat is one which I have 
conducted with great success. The Telepathist is 
taken out of the room, the operator remaining as 
before. To begin with, the entire pack of cards 
may be shuffled thoroughly, and then the feat of 
removing the Court Cards of every suit be decided 
upon. The Telepathist is brought blindfolded 
as before, led to a table, given the cards. The 
operator curves his hands round the brow as be- 
fore, without touching, and all present fix their 
thought upon the Court Cards. I have seldom had 
a failure in this experiment, but all must give 
entire thought and attention, or the Telepathist 
may fail. 

To read a name, number of a bank note, etc., 
fastened securely in an envelope, the same process 
is gone through, but in this more delicate and 
difficult feat the Operator may place his fingers 
lightly on the Telepathist 's temples, to assist the 
flow of thought. 

One of my best mediums has, with as many as 
sixteen or more pocket handkerchiefs taken from 
a roomful of people, the handkerchiefs being tied 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 153 

together in a loose knot, and the Telepathist blind- 
folded, has, without contact, given to each person 
his own handkerchief. In the same way, out of a 
large gathering of friends, six have had coins of 
different value laid haphazard on the carpet, she 
has found each coin and returned it to its rightful 
owner; this without mistake. These trivial ex- 
periments in Thought Transference are the 
A.B.C. of the student. They are very easily car- 
ried out and the methods I have given are those I 
have found best. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

Telepathic Communications. 

In the previous chapter I showed you a simple 
method of demonstration in the most common and 
conventional forms of Thought Transference, 
methods and experiments which are to me unin- 
teresting but which go a long way to convince 
sceptics. 

For all experiments passing those cited in the 
last chapter certain conditions must be fulfilled. 

Remember, first of all, that the mental receiver, 
the brain, is a very sensitive instrument. Science 
boasts of the delicacy of instruments which can 
measure light waves, sound waves, color waves, 
which can investigate the nature, size and atmos- 
phere of planets billions of miles distant. Science 
has yet to invent the instrument which can record 
thought, but Nature herself has provided the in- 
strument in the brain of another. Except in 
unusual circumstances, this brain receiver will 
only record thought with accuracy when the nerv- 
ous system of the person is tranquil, and so recep- 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 155 

tive, when it is not engaged actively in any mental 
work of an opposite nature and when the sur- 
roundings are not of a character to distract the 
mind. Therefore, repose and quiet are essential. 
Of course, there are instances, startling instances, 
too, of a telepathic communication having been 
received in the midst of turmoil, but I am dealing 
with the question of experiment, of pre-arranged 
sittings, not of sudden warnings, etc. 

It is best to commence at close quarters. 

Two kindred souls, the one positive, the other 
negative, may sit in the same room, later on in 
the .same house but different rooms, finally in 
different rooms in different parts of the same 
town, and gradually increasing the distance as 
time goes and easy communication is possible. To 
make these experiments a real success, the mode 
of life and diet must be of the most simple nature. 
As little excitement as possible, absolute cleanli- 
ness, and a clean room. Let the person who acts 
as receiver sit down in a comfortable chair and 
free his mind from thought. This is not easy, but 
if the student will for a few daj^s before starting 
experiments sit down quietly for an hour daily, 
and let his mind run down, i. e., let it run down 
until he has thought up all his thoughts, then 
gradually it will be less difficult to think of 
nothing. 



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In fact, many of my students have found that 
the best waif to make the mind blank or to concen- 
trate it upon any single point is to sit down with 
the idea that the mind is free to think upon any 
subject it pleases — and this very permission seems 
to stop any desire for mind ivandering. 

This little rule will apply both to operator and 
receiver. 

Both students can sit, but, whilst the receiver 
makes his brain blank, thinking of nothing, ready 
to take any impression which may be sent to him, 
the operator fixes his whole mind upon the mes- 
sage he wants to convey. It is best to begin with 
action. 

Think steadily that the receiver will get up, 
walk to the window, and pull down the blind, or 
anything else that may occur to you. The secret 
of doing this successfully is not to think — ''you 
will get up, walk to the window and pull down the 
blind" — in fact, you may go on thinking that for 
quite a while and have no result at all. Close 
your eyes, call up a mental vision of your friend, 
see him sitting in the chair opposite you, then 
see his limbs move, watch him put his hands on 
the arms of the chair, hesitate a second, get up, 
stand a second, then walk to the window, watch 
him (mentally with your eyes closed all the time) 
step by step — watch the movement of his legs, 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 157 

see him lift his arms to the blind and pull it down. 
The more vividly you can impress this picture on 
your brain, the more accurately it will be tran- 
scribed, and that in a very short time. 

The whole secret of thought transference is 
this ability to make the mind blank, like a clean 
slate, on the one hand, and to create vivid mental 
pictures on the other. In photography, we have 
the plate — blank — a short exposure and the object 
before the camera is indelibly pictured upon the 
blank plate. The successful telepathist does not 
think in words but in pictures. 

When this simple experiment has been carried 
out successfully the operator may try his hand as 
the receiver, and the receiver can make the mental 
picture in his turn. The difficulty of the experi- 
ments may be increased day by day, and it will be 
well to take notes of the proceedings for refer- 
ence, and also to gauge the extent of progress. 
Quite apart from the interest created by these 
experiments, they are valuable for mind building 
— it is impossible to carry on a course of mental 
exercises like this, without greatly strengthening 
the powers of memory, observation, concentration 
and intuition. The above-mentioned method of 
thought transference is only the beginning. The 
next condition is the transference of words. 

You may undertake this when you can make 



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your receiver catch your thouglit as regards action 
from any part of the house. Sit down quietly as 
before, and close your eyes. Choose simple nouns 
to begin with — ^your receiver must make his mind 
blank as before. Think intently of a book — not a 
word, but the picture of it — ask your receiver to 
give the impression he receives. He may hesitate 
a moment, then he says, ''It is something oblong 
— it is — it is a book." Go on thinking clearly of 
one object at a time, making the picture as sharp 
and vivid as possible. You will need to do this 
at close quarters to commence with if you like, you 
may even hold the receiver's hand, though I do 
not recommend this. One thing I must urge — 
carry your hobby into everything you do, try its 
effect upon everything and everybody, whatever 
you think of, even in the small duties of life ; get 
into the habit of making these mental pictures of 
all you do and of all you see or have seen. Coming 
to the questions of long distances and communica- 
tions, slightly different methods are called for. 
It is best for beginners to arrange a sitting at a 
few streets distance. The operator will then, as 
before, close his eyes and call forth a vivid mental 
picture of the receiver. Then, still holding the 
picture before him, he must call aloud the name 
of the receiver — ''John Smith, John Smith, do 
you hear me ? — I am going to write you a letter. ' ' 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 159 

Repeat the sentence two or three times, making 
the voice clear and distinct. Of course you can 
use any simple sentences, but let there be only one 
idea. 

Naturally as you grow proficient you can leave 
the A.B.C. and learn to transmit and receive whole 
sentences as easily as possible. But you must 
become perfect by degrees. Before you can play 
the piano you must learn your notes. 

The idea of calling the name and sentence aloud 
is to help concentrate the will, and to increase 
the power of the vibrations by this additional 
concentration. 

The methods given in this lesson may be the 
royal road, if there is such a thing as a royal road 
to any matter of psychic import ; at any rate, by 
practicing them carefully you will gain a practical 
insight into the wonderful power of Thought, and 
realize that the old theories are dead and that 
Thought is very far from being confined to each 
individual brain-pan, like the chained bulldog, but 
that it can travel the world round, and over a 
distance of thousands of miles find the object of 
its search. 



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CHAPTER XV, 

To CoNTEOL THE Mental Visioisr. 

We have been concerned in the transmission of 
simple words and impressions so far, but now it 
comes to the question of transmitting whole sen- 
tences, which is more difficult, but worked on 
exactly the same principles. First, analyze your 
sentence, let it be as direct as possible in your own 
mind ; let it have some definite point. 

Sit quietly as before, close your eyes, and as a 
preliminary, call up the face and figure of your 
comrade; have it very clearly before you, and 
then, when fixed, speak loud to the image you have 
called up. Not only speak the words, but have a 
clear and concentrated conception of their mean- 
ing. Take a simple sentence at first with a 
definite object. It is just as well, too, to take a 
sentence that will not be anticipated by the 
receiver. 

Try this experiment, if you like, for instance: 
I am holding a red or white flower in my hand. 

Say this aloud, and, having arranged with your 
co-worker as to time, etc., be sure that he is wait- 
ing for your message to come through. Now drop 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 161 

the image of your receiver, and picture clearly the 
flower in your hand. Hold this picture mentally, 
never mind the retinue — that would complicate 
matters — dwell on the picture, emphasize the word 
flower and Will that the impression is fixed on 
your receiver 's brain. This should not take more 
than five minutes, but you must not let any other 
thought come in at all. 

This is part of the business, and you can trans- 
mit a variety of sentences, all simple to commence 
with. You are learning a new language and can- 
not expect fluency without practice, and the more 
enthusiastic you are the more easily you can fix 
your mind on the sentence, and the sooner it will 
be received. 

Coming to the attitude of the receiver, let him 
take a pencil and paper and at the appointed hour 
sit down, cover his eyes with his hands, and make 
his brain blank. Then when he gets any impres- 
sion or message he must write it down. 

Never mind if it seems unlikely or improbable, 
that can be tested afterwards ; as you grow more 
in sympathy, the meaning will come so clearly you 
will seem to almost hear the words uttered. 

The practice must not close with the transmis- 
sion of words and sentences only ; you must learn 
to transmit feelings as well. This is not at all 
easy work, but can be done. 



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When I say this I mean it is not easy to impress 
simulated feelings upon the receiver; when the 
feelings are real, it is easy enough. All the same, 
try to transmit feelings of joy, love, fear and 
anger; it will help you to concentrate your Will 
and increase its power. In this instance you are 
not trying to send a sentence to your receiver, 
being unprepared, may be a little startled. So, 
during the experiments, it is as well to warn him 
not to be astonished at any feeling or impression 
that may come to him. 

These experiments come under the heading of 
pre-arranged messages, that is to say, both of the 
experimenters sitting at a pre-arranged time and 
devoting their thoughts to the transference of 
Thought. 

Words, sentences, figures, etc., may be sent in 
this way from any distance as experiments or 
tests, but of course the time when perfect com- 
munication is fully established is much more inter- 
esting than mere tests or experiments. A thing 
I have done successfully with any number of 
people is to make them come to me by telepathic 
command if I have wanted them for anything. 

This without pre-arrangement at all. 

Cover your eyes, call forth the image of the 
say aloud, *Mohn Smith (or whatever his name 
person you wish for, then looking into his eyes 



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may be ) , I want you — come to me ; do you hear ? ' ' 
Say it over three or four times and picture your 
friend leaving his house or office, boarding bus or 
train, walking or riding to your house. Follow 
him out every step of the journey, and in the 
shortest possible time he will turn up, impelled by 
what force he may not know, yet be unable to 
resist it. 

A certain amount of sympathy between the 
operator and the person thus conjured up is neces- 
sary, but not by any means the same sympathetic 
relationship which is needed for the experiments 
previously cited. 

The difficulty of calling up the mental image 
is one that practice will render perfect. Some 
people can do this naturally, others find it difficult. 

To help you, take a look at a face, any face, 
close your eyes and still try to see it; remember 
how the eyes, nose and mouth are formed, the 
contour of the face, coloring. Take another peep 
at the person, close your eyes and go over it 
again. 

In the same way with scenery, houses, animals, 
you will be astonished how soon you gain control 
over this mental vision, and by closing your eyes 
at any time, you can see accurately any thing or 
person you want to. You will notice that in the 



164 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

above experiment it is unnecessary to know what 
your receiver is doing or where he is. 

You want him, you send your message ; it flies 
straight to its destination, and, drawn by the force 
of your thought, he comes to you. You will find 
with a little practice that quite 50 per cent of the 
people you know will obey the mental command 
and a possible 75 per cent will feel it whether they 
obey or not. 

As a more striking experiment you may com- 
mand the "receiver" to bring you some specified 
object, say a daily paper, a certain book, some 
flowers. 

Call his name, call up his mental image ; tell him, 
"I want you to bring me the Times," or any other 
paper you fix on. Eepetitions of this experiment 
will soon prove its remarkable truth. You will 
find as a rule, however, that the people who will 
bring any specified object ordered will be more in 
sympathy with you than those who come but do 
not answer to the command to bring something. 

I have had the most striking instances of the 
truth of these experiments. Of course they are 
carried out better where the people are in the 
same town. For naturally with a train journey 
between, people think twice before obeying the 
thought message they receive bidding them take 
the journey, unless it came in the form of a dis- 



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tinct warning, which, of course, no operator would 
use for experimenting. 

In the case of long distance experiments, pre- 
arranged times of sitting are best, and then, of 
course, more complicated messages may be sent, 
and every possible test given as to accuracy. 

This is Telepathy in the natural state. 

Telepathy during sleep is very common, people 
call this dreaming ' ' true, ' ' to quote the old women, 
but it is simply a recurrence of the phenomena of 
Thought Transference. 

The best way to remove any indictment of 
*' chance" or "collusion" from these instances is 
for the operator to be given the vision or message 
he proposes sending to his "receiver" by a third 
party, who can so test the truth of the whole 
transaction. 

As the operator drops off to sleep he fixes his 
whole mind upon the "receiver" and wills 
strongly that he shall dream of the message or 
thing agreed upon, in many instances the "re- 
ceiver" will not only receive the message but see 
the operator as well. 

I have to deal with this phase later on in 
another chapter. 

Of course, constant practice in this form of 
Telepathy makes the perfect operator, just as in 
any other instance. 



166 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

Projecting the '' Astral. '' 

The question of projecting the "astral" is a 
subject of the greatest fascination to most people. 

Many people openly stigmatize it as "rot"; 
others allow that there may be something in it; 
others, yet again, knoiv that it is a possibility. No 
pre-arrangement is necessary at all with the per- 
sons you are going to send your "astral self" to 
visit, unless that person is of very nervous tem- 
perament, when a hint may be given of what is 
coming. A clear understanding of what consti- 
tutes "the astral self" may help my students. 

I am not trying to put this description into 
technical language, but only to make it as simple 
and plain as can be. 

The physical body of each person is composed 
of gross matter vibrating at a very low rate. 

I have previously explained that all things in 
nature are in a state of constant movement, known 
by scientists as "vibration." 

Within this physical body dwells the Soul body 
^^"Spiritualists" call this Soul or spiritual body 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 167 

*' Spirit" of a departed person (irrelevant people 
call it a ''spook") ; it is really the finer vibrations 
of the body, the Soul itself. 

These finer and purer vibrations of the human 
form take on the exact representation of the physi- 
cal body ; to all appearance it is the physical body, 
but greatly etheralized. 

When an ordinary person goes to sleep this 
astral form floats lightly above his body, never 
leaving it for long, nor for any great distance, and 
in the undeveloped person this form takes but 
little shape. When the Mind and Spirit are devel- 
oped, the senses conquered, thought and body 
pure, this astral form takes on a definite shape, 
can leave the body entirely for hours, travel in the 
astral or physical world, as he pleases, to any land 
or any distance. 

This cannot be done successfully until man has 
mastered the animal side of his nature. 

It is possible to send this astral form to visit 
people or places at Will. It is very fatiguing and 
an experiment not to be attempted by the unde- 
veloped person. 

To commence with, try experiments in your 
natural sleep — suggest strongly to yourself, as 
you fall off to sleep, that you will remember when 
you wake. 

When you can obey this suggestion and when 



I6g MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

you can remember, then, and not till then, have 
you arrived at a condition suitable for projecting 
the' 'astral." 

Choose a very quiet place where you cannot 
be disturbed. Sit or lie down, close your eye- 
lids, and roll the balls up as if you were trying to 
look between the eyebrows ; in a very few minutes 
your eyes will grow tired and sleep steal upon you. 
Do not trouble to think of the sleep. 

Remember the ivhole effort of your ivill is to be 
directed upon pour astral self — you desire this 
Self to visit a certain place or person — as you fall 
off to sleep all your force directs the ''astraP' to 
its destination. I can assure you that it will do so. 
Your friend will look up and see you standing 
beside him looking perfectly natural. 

The "astral self" will in advanced stages speak 
— touch him, remain with him for some time even. 

All this sounds like a fairy story to the uniti- 
ated, but it is often done. The only drawback is 
the fact that the person who projects the astral in 
this fashion suffers from terrible fatigue, and the 
student who is content to work and travel during 
sleep does not feel such fatigue. 

The sensation of leaving the body is curious; 
one rises slowly in the atmosphere, feeling 
strangely light and free, and the sight of the heavy 
sleeping body, lying unconscious beneath one, is 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 169 

most strange. Then, too, matter is not impene- 
trable for the astral body; it can pass through 
brick walls as easy as light passes through the 
window and that in itself is a curious sensation. 

In the East they have a very powerful method 
of inducing sleep and of sending the astral body on 
its journey. The real methods of Yoga training 
are not for the Western mind; the trained adept 
simply makes samyama on his desire and his 
astral self will travel anywhere, or even be in two 
places at once. But the method I give is used 
with success among the lower class Yogis and is 
quite well adapted for modern uses. The student 
lies flat on his back, closes his eyes, then he 
imagines a small hole or chamber in the middle 
of his brain, about an inch above the ear. This is 
technically called the Pineal Gland. It is a small 
cone-shaped body in the cerebellum, and was said 
by Descartes to be the seat of the Soul. 

The student imagines he is looking into this 
gland, then up into the back of his head. Slowly 
he draws his breath in and as he draws it imagines 
it ever going up to fill the chamber in the brain. 

In this manner sleep falls upon him, of a deeper 
and more potent nature than the ordinary self 
hypnotic slumber. 

The astral body then moves obedient to the will 
and command of the student. In the case of treat- 



170 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBEES. 

ing a patient telepathically it is best to proceed 
as follows : Sit down and call up the mental image 
of your patient. See him lying down and mentally 
take your seat beside him. Now commence treat- 
ment by saying aloud, if it helps you, "You are 
quite tvell, you are in perfect health; life and 
health permeate your body. You are getting 
stronger, you grow tired and weary, you are going 
to sleep, sound sleep ; you will awake feeling per- 
fectly well and quite refreshed. ' ' 

Do not picture the person as sick and in pain, 
but in perfect health, able to move with ease, 
bright, cheery, full of vitality. 

You must absolutely force yourself to ignore his 
real condition, for he will not take up your thought 
at all if there is any hesitation or doubt in your 
mind when you send it. The patient is susceptible 
to every feeling and thought you allow yourself to 
manifest, so be careful to avoid anything which 
may harm him. 

We all know that health is often restored by 
sudden joy, caused by sudden trouble; a great 
many of the diseases man is liable to are of mental 
origin, nervous troubles, and are curable by simi- 
lar treatment. The positive thought of health 
telepathed to the patient takes root, and his mind 
grasps it firmly; with the vital mental stimulant 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 171 

the nerves grow calm, the functions of the body 
resume their normal action, and health is restored. 
Headache, toothache, indigestion, stomach 
troubles, colds, etc., etc., and sometimes chronic 
diseases of long standing may be cured by the 
telepathist. So may melancholia and even hysteria. 



X72 MYSTIC TEST EOOE, HINDU OCCULT CHAMEEES. 

CHAPTER XVII. 

Telepathic Apparatus. 

In concluding these chapters in Telepathjr I am 
going to give you an apparatus which I have found 
singularly helpful in some cases where extreme 
sensitiveness was not the strong point of the ' ' re- 
ceiver" and only blurred and imperfect messages 
could be got through. Any worker in metals could 
make the apparatus and the cost is only a few 
shillings. A very thin band of copper, about half 
an inch in width, should be made to fit round the 
head. At the two sides of the band let two copper 
wires be fixed in such a position that they can 
join the band on either side of the temples; the 
band itself should reach just above the eyebrows 
and fit tightly. 

The wires may each be of two or even three 
yards long or more. 

Many people find the contact of pure copper 
very disagreeable, even producing a taste in the 
mouth; to neutralize this a roll of silver wire 
should be procured and wound, not too tightly or 
closely, round the copper wire but not round the 
band, this must always be of plain copper, unless 



THE MAOIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 173 

the receiver is very averse from the metal, when a 
plate of thin gold or a sheet of gold, such as paint- 
ers use for gilding, may be fixed across the band 
from the temples to the middle of each eyebrow, 
but not on any account to pass between the 
eyebrows. 

This apparatus must be used at first in trans- 
mission at close quarters. The ^'receiver" wears 
the band, the operator holds the end of the wires, 
one in each hand. It is not at all necessary to sit 
in the same room if the wires are long enough. 

After messages can be transmitted and received 
through the instrument it will be found that the 
operator can dispense with it, may indeed go to 
any distance, and if the receiver wears the copper 
band the message will come through clearly. I 
do not care for mechanical means myself, but 
many people find great assistance from this band. 
One very curious experiment may be carried out 
with it, however, very successfully. Here we need 
two receivers and one operator, and a single 
apparatus. The receiver wearing the apparatus 
in this case may know nothing whatever of tele- 
pathy and be quite unable to read a message. He 
sits at an appointed time wearing a band. The 
operator sends him a telepathic message, which 
conveys no impression to him at all; in fact he 
cannot read it. Still wearing the band he goes to 



174 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

the trained receiver, who, taking the copper ends 
in his hand will, after a moment or so, be able to 
read accurately the message sent by the operator. 

The explanation is simple enough, the man who 
is untrained receives the messages as clearly as 
the trained sensitive; that is to say, they are 
clearly impressed upon his sub-conscious mind, but 
he does not comprehend them at all. A telegraph- 
ist can read the Morse message with ease, the man 
in the street only hears the tiresome tick — ticking 
of the instrument. So the messages impressed 
upon the brain of the non-sensitive is as clear as 
daylight to the sensitive. 

Kemember that it is not our eyes that see, nor 
physical ears that hear ; it is the delicate mechan- 
ism of the brain behind them which, illuminated 
by the living spirit, receives the impressions of 
sight and sound, and through which the receiving 
instrument of the mind transmits its messages to 
the organs. The dead have eyes and ears, yet 
they neither see nor hear; the organs are there, 
but the living spirit of the brain, the soul of the 
man, has gone. 

The consideration of telepathy under hypnosis 
is one which many students will be glad to 
investigate. 

There is not any difficulty about it, but expe- 
rience will convince many sceptics. Put the ''re- 



THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 175 

ceiver" into a fairly deep condition of hypnosis 
by any of the methods I have explained in ' ' Prac- 
tical Hypnotism," then let your sceptic approach 
the receiver and start his experiment. 

Of course it is necessary that the person under 
hypnosis should be trained sensitive ; some people 
can never do much in telepathy because they are of 
the earth, earthy, and incapable of receiving any 
other vibration at all. 

The sceptic may then either give the receiver 
an article, such as his watch, a letter or glove to 
hold, or he may seal a paper containing words or 
numbers in an envelope, the contents known only 
to himself and not to the operator. The operator 
after placing the sceptic in touch with receiver 
for a moment, says, "This gentleman has written 
a letter, or number, and has enclosed it in this 
envelope." Without hesitation the receiver will 
declare aloud the contents of the envelope or from 
holding the watch or glove give a very accurate 
description of his surroundings, mental conditions, 
troubles, etc., etc. The subject may, still under 
hypnosis, be blindfolded tightly, and any object 
taken up haphazard be placed between his brows, 
when he will be able to state the nature of the 
object. Playing cards, any small ornament, may 
be used. Of course, onlookers must all think hard 
of the article during the experiment. 



176 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. 

These chapters in Thought Transference are 
very valuable in everyday life. When as an opera- 
tor, for instance, you have learnt how to impress 
the mental vision upon your "receiver" you will 
find it very easy to impress your tvill upon ordi- 
nary people who have no idea at all of what is 
going on. Get first of all people in a receptive 
condition and do not antagonize them; talk about 
something they feel a deep interest in, but of which 
they can hold forth in a friendly and quiet spirit ; 
then let them talk and begin to form the mental 
image of the thing you wish them to do; stop 
listening to what they are saying, but look them 
quietly in the face, not staring, and fix the image 
on their brain. After a time you can start the 
conversation in the direction you wish, still keep- 
ing the mind fixed on the same subject. You will 
have very few failures. This method of tele- 
pathic magnetism in business is invaluable, but it 
is not only the operator but the receiver who has 
the pull in his particular realm. 

Very few people do their most brilliant work 
with Thought Transference when undergoing 
tests, yet they can acquire the habit of reading 
the mind of all those they come in contact with. 
There are few people who come to me whom I 
cannot read as a book, without any effort on my 
part. This is simply accomplished by practice, 



THE MAGIC AND OCCUIiTISM OF INDIA. 177 

and of course when you want to do this you make 
yourself quite passive and receptive to the person 
you are dealing with. Let them talk ; be content to 
listen and to make your mind blank. It is aston- 
ishing how soon one picks up the faculty, how easy 
it is to read the minds of those who know but little 
how great is your power, and of course it is an 
invaluable aid to life's success. 

Try both methods, to make other people think 
as you think, i. e., receptive to your thoughts, and 
also yourself receiver. 

Practice everywhere, in private, in public, on 
those you know and those who are strangers to 
you. Get a friend with whom you can practice 
regularly and make liberal notes of every success 
and every failure you achieve. Once you have 
learnt how to transmit thought, and to receive it, 
you can annihilate distance; those you love may 
be at your side or in Timbuctoo, and you can com- 
municate, see, hear and speak to them, as easily 
one way as the other. 

If you can achieve half the success others have 
obtained here and in India you will find a new 
world opened out to you, full of strange possi- 
bilities, and unexplored, unexpected realms of 
investigation. 

The End. 



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